Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders

Press2ToContinue writes with news that San Quentin, a notorious California prison, has started a program to teach a class of inmates to write code. The first class will last for six months, and the inmates are learning about programming for eight hours a day. The hope is to give them the skills to find a good job after they leave prison, which in turn would reduce their chances of recidivism. Since the state's Dept. of Corrections prohibits internet access, the class only "pretends" to be online — they can't use internet-based resources, and nobody on the outside can see or use the software they create. One of the class's backers said, 'Almost every week there's epiphanies. And most of the guys in here, they've never touched a computer before. They are progressing beyond our expectations."

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just kill them all

[globaljustin]

here's a modest proposal: why not just kill all criminals?

solves the population, food, water, and global warming almost immediately if all US prisoners were executed right now

we sure as hell can't ever let anyone who has ever committed a crime out of prison...ever...no matter what the crime...that would be just insane