As you are viewing this blog post, most likely you are already familiar with MCE’s slogan:When you buy from MCE you are not just buying a product - you are changing a life. To prove it isn’t just a slogan, we reached out to former MCE participants and invited them to share their stories with the world.

Six years ago, I was fortunate enough to join the wonderful team at Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) and enter a world I admittingly knew very little about. As the daughter of a police officer and an extremely paranoid mother, you can imagine their excitement when I called home to tell them I had gotten a job in the prison system…