Flikshop partners with small businesses to donate Flikshop Gift Cards to organizations that support children of incarcerated parents for Father's Day.

John Legend partners with Flikshop and donates free Flikshop Credits to users of the mobile app that keeps families connected to those in prison. "When I spoke to Marcus about Flikshop, he spoke of the importance of mail call while he was in prison, the happiness felt...

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Mobile app CEO and award-winning author go back into jails, 10 years after their release from prison as co-defendants and after winning prestigious Booz Allen Hamilton Aspen Ideas Award

Marcus Bullock, CEO of Flikshop and Flikshop School of Business...

Entrepreneurship is the new Re-Entry Plan

Finding work with a criminal record is not an easy task. Although the majority of citizens returning from prison are at the right age, and fully capable of taking up new employment, the success rate of applying is low. This is...

Every now and then I run into a star-studded mind in my classroom. Student, Malik Coles, along with other peers in the juvenile development center New Beginnings has done it again.

Check out their website that focuses on the introduction to redemption. The site is full...

I lived in Walker Mill, Maryland and Dwayne lived in Suitland, Maryland when we shared that memorable night in 1996 together in a holding cell. We both went to Suitland High School, where the basketball team and Math club were our claims to fame. We were both a coupl...

It was almost a year ago, and I only began to remember how the night really went once my attorney brought the video surveillance tape to my house to review it with me. I honestly think that it was asking a bit much of me to remember much of the moment, but I can tell y...

It happened every year, and I was blessed to see another one regardless of being woken

up by one officer screaming "Count!" and another idiot with his screaching whistle blowing. I stretched my linky legs off the top bunk, and just as I did every morning, I jumped dow...

This year is no comparison to last year's Father's Day. I mean, if he weren't locked up last year and were blessed to be home to celebrate last year with his beautiful children, he is sitting behind a loudly slammed door wishing he were there to kiss his children on S...