Coss Marte, founder of CONBODY, the prison-style fitness studio proudly hiring formerly incarcerated individuals, appeared on today's episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show! The New York native, who built his business plan while in solitary confinement, was grated $15k from Ellen to support his mission to de-stigmatize the formerly incarcerated community, especially black and brown returning citizens, to ease their integration back into society, and change the systemic inequity of the criminal justice system.

Coss has expanded upon the original concept of CONBODY in further pursuit of this mission, through the CONBODY FOUNDATION, which provides fitness & CSR programs as well as wraparound reentry services for returning citizens. CONBODY has worked with over 100 formerly incarcerated professionals with a 0% recidivism rate.