Learning to Code in Prison

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Over 55% of formerly incarcerated people end up back behind bars. The Last Mile is on a mission to break this cycle of recidivism, using coding.
The organization provides opportunities for incarcerated individuals to spend their prison sentences acquiring marketable skills.
And it’s working - some are even landing a job before they’re released.
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[@freethink]

What do you think of this prison education program?

[@brandondevenport2938]

I think you got caught

[@legoG]

I think it’s really good. Lol but imagine, “we are one of the top 10 prisons nationwide, we are accepting applications for our comp sci program. Please submit your criminal record to the admissions office.” But jokes aside I think this is an awesome idea

[@GenericJ13J]

It's amazing, and needs to continue!

[@sssawfish]

I think this program proves that prison shouldn’t be about punishment it should be about rehabilitation.

[@GenericJ13J]

@@sssawfish EXACTLY!!!

[@boneylocs9738]

To be able to get out of Prison and have this tool in life is everything.

[@freethink]

Absolutely.

[@Axehell6394]

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo

[@TheLPRnetwork]

Prisoners: Schools are the best prisons. Students: My School IS a prison.

[@BenevoIence]

Shouldnt it be switched around?

[@freethink]

"I heard what they meant," as they say.

[@KriptoKenYT]

Computer programming is such a big part in today's society. People will offer you good paying jobs for coding, and to let these inmates have a second chance and get into and amazing field is just amazing

[@blue-pj2bp]

kudos to The Last Mile, keep up the good work!

[@freethink]

Right on, thanks for watching!

[@AstrobotJones]

This is the progress I love to see! Congrats to all that improve their lives through programs like this.

[@freethink]

Cheers! Thanks for the kind thoughts, nice to see a lot of positive comments here for a change :)

[@AstrobotJones]

@@freethink You're welcome. Thank you for your contributions. Keep up the great work!

[@newtuber4freedom43]

Inspirational!!

[@freethink]

So glad you liked it!

[@solomonkitumba]

dude is writing node JS, express in prison, this is magical

[@onionplanet5209]

Great job.. well I appreciate what they have done it 👏

[@HM-yr1vr]

WTF? I have no excuse and I am complaining about tutorial purgatory. This is definitely inspiration!

[@M98-z1p]

Out of curiosity, What types of code do they learn? What language seems to be the most popular?

[@createchange3813]

Javascript and MERN dev

[@mradaChris]

that was awesome!

[@freethink]

Cheers, so glad you liked it!

[@adtc]

Hope you get to a million subs!

[@freethink]

Thanks so much! Appreciate it and working hard to make it happen :)

[@lohphat]

For those of use who’ve worked in startups, the first thing which came to mind was “what’s the difference?”

[@freethink]

The key difference is the prisoners don't get to own part of the prison after they go public.

[@lohphat]

Freethink And the vast majority of startup workers don’t either. Most stock options are worthless and in many cases they lose money if they exercise their options then the startup fails before they IPO. Most startups fail. Those which might make it to IPO, the execs and underwriters make money but the employees are locked out for 6 months. By that time the value has crashed. It’s all a lottery and it’s rigged against the average employees.

[@sincere7116]

Shanks , razors, riots, the hole, life, oooooohhhh theirs a difference!

[@lohphat]

Sincere 7 I see you’ve worked at Oracle.

[@confusions2534]

Wow this is a game changing scenario I like this! All my life I always have the stigma of people who been locked as monsters. Especially what we see in prisons always fight and lifting weight but the more weight we as people to help lift off this prisoners to make their life more morally acceptable since they payed their time.

[@benjaminshtark5977]

the amazing thing about programming and software engineering is that its fairly easy to employ ex-inmate, for such job. first of all, its all about knowledge, if person has skill, then he/she can do the job, and today software engineers are very valuable to sociaty. second, it is of less importance if such person was in fact in prison, he/she served his/her time to community and said person can work remotely even, thus basicly minimizing practicly to 0 any interaction to other employees, and just do their job.

[@tejaswikhandavalli9215]

woah! This is really interesting ❤️❤️❤️

[@freethink]

Kvr Tejaswi thanks for watching, glad you liked it!

[@lvl23barback81]

This is AMAZING

[@bruh321xyz4]

I believe these prisoners....will solve real world problem.insyallah

[@alvinjpn3517]

Amazing that this program exists. But What I'd like to know, how long did he get for shooting up the person who MOLESTED his daughter? Sure it's wrong, but hopefully we don't see him as the bad person here, but the person that drove him to commit that act.

[@Blazer433]

Truly inspiring

[@colindevoe3460]

powerful!

[@freethink]

Thanks, Colin!

[@lawandacooper3271]

They need to give it to people before they have to go to prison because a lot of them have no skills and the way they can make money by going to jail or prison

[@loganmilliken2727]

"Coded Straight" A new series like Scared Straight. "YOU THINK THATS CODE YOU SON OF A ..."

[@primeroultimo]

Whats the program and how can i join and learn?

[@jayelumer5670]

its a prison program. you have to be in prison to do it!

[@CloudlessStudio]

Awesome awesome awesome idea!

[@ponalvsiki2254]

Alright, let me try stealing 1 dollar baguette from Walmart and learn programming for free

[@mikelahood9600]

So so so cool!

[@freethink]

We agree :). Thanks, Mike!

[@sumitmishra7644]

liked the name the last mile just like the green mile

[@lagimmediafiles6478]

Wow!

[@freethink]

Glad you liked it!

[@fuqupal]

Finally the U.S. is starting to take after the Scandinavian models. And people here are like: "Woah", and shit! This shit has been done for for 30 years in countries like Norway and Sweden with great success. It's nothing new. Well... to Americans it's revolutionary, but...

[@Lawrence_Femi_Ikenna_Odedina]

ok and your point is?

[@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990]

OK, this is good for them, but the issue I see is that they are given free education while being in the prison, but I have to pay 50k+ for the same thing?! 🤔😑 getting in jail is the best way to ed now?

[@createchange3813]

Its not "free" and there is more free resources online to teach you the same thing these students are learning.

[@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990]

@@createchange3813 yeah? You think this is the only difference? Havent you noticed tutors and classrooms with gear?

[@createchange3813]

@@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990 trust me I know all the difference between learning in there and learning outside. I myself not only learned coding inside but continued my learning outside and am now teaching it to underserved communities as a volunteer. Im in that same video you are speaking of....

[@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990]

@@createchange3813 oh god, seems true. To how many this initiative helped? Did you find a job?

[@createchange3813]

@@noninvasive_rectal_probe8990 right now The Last Mile have taught around 500 students and not one person that have graduated the program came back to prison. The only program in Cali that can say that. Also, I signed with a tech company 3 weeks before getting out.

[@aur2639]

amazing!!

[@ll-cf6td]

Thats righttt

[@jayant8791]

Brilliant

[@oceanwonders]

Incredible. I can't blame him for shooting someone who molests his daughter.

[@vincentcanlas6534]

What language they teach ?

[@createchange3813]

Javascript and MERN

[@redpoppy3569]

So they have resources while I have nothing. And am forced to pay taxes. My company was going down already but govt induced virus made it worse (even churches are closed) and I am unable to find job elsewhere. I'm a citizen and no crim.

[@freethink]

There's actually many more free coding resources accessible outside of prison than within it. www.codecademy.com/ is a great place to start if you are interested, or there may be community colleges or scholarship programs available at local institutions. Good luck.

[@0xKilty]

Lol what if you’re in there for hacking

[@freethink]

You'll probably place out, tbh :)

[@ellenmcdaniel1550]

I have to wonder though if any of these guys would use code once they got out to destroy a business or government website, or harrass someone online.

[@alecklecky]

You're talking about black hat hacking. It appears this program focuses on web development, meaning they are creating websites. I don't think they're teaching them how to break into websites. Sure an inmate could learn how to hack, but it would only be an issue if they started to hack establishments uninvited. There are plenty of ethical hackers and actually a great demand for them. It's about what the inmate does with this knowledge, but in their classes, they certainly aren't learning how to hack (penetrate).

[@theghosttiger1446]

It enrages me that we outsource these jobs to other countries when we are sitting on a surplus of potentially great minds who have nothing to do all day but generate income for a private prison system.

[@mikethegamedev]

what the hell bruh

[@reesespieces3969]

Isn’t prison hard enough. Now you are forcing them to learn coding. That’s cruel and unusual punishment lol

[@kalepattison8850]

they could learn how to hack jobs and steal money

[@createchange3813]

So could students learning coding outside and also bank tellers but no one assumes that

[@Jinipoem]

Wall Street?

[@nimsayaniaable]

they are so lucky to be able to have the luxury to study for free.. outside here we have to pay to study n we need to work to pay our rent n food

[@ArtyomGalstyan]

this isn't a code, its only css and html... Why they don't learn python or c++?

[@quintonashley5745]

You can build anything with Javascript, html, and css. Get with the times.

[@AdolfStalin]

Yeah they will it's called hacking

[@createchange3813]

I mean the alternative is people get fast food jobs after they are release but then people would say they can spit in our food..

[@AdolfStalin]

@@createchange3813 just spit in the burgers of cops instead. its more productive.

[@suntan4538]

Adolf Stalin This program is AMAZING! Stop being an asshole! No person is perfect jackass! And with your attitude, be blessed “you” haven’t been caught yet! Jerk!

[@AdolfStalin]

@@suntan4538 nigga what