https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/teaching-prisoners-to-code <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>While it is a good idea to teach prisoners skills that make them marketable, well as marketable as a felon can be, to the outside world in an effort to reduce recidivism. Is it a good idea to teach them a skill that could very easily be flipped for criminal enterprise?<br /><br />Corollary, if you owned a business and needed to outsource your coding, would you hire coders in the Prison Industries or someone who learned to code in prison? <br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5">http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/005/890/qrc/141204154007-coding-in-prison-00004121-620xa.jpg?1443028634"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5">Hire a coder at San Quentin</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">San Quentin launched a coding class to give inmates a marketable skill -- both behind bars and once they get out.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:58:41 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/teaching-prisoners-to-code <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>While it is a good idea to teach prisoners skills that make them marketable, well as marketable as a felon can be, to the outside world in an effort to reduce recidivism. Is it a good idea to teach them a skill that could very easily be flipped for criminal enterprise?<br /><br />Corollary, if you owned a business and needed to outsource your coding, would you hire coders in the Prison Industries or someone who learned to code in prison? <br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5">http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/005/890/qrc/141204154007-coding-in-prison-00004121-620xa.jpg?1443028634"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/05/technology/coding-san-quentin/index.html?iid=HP_LN&amp;hpt=hp_bn5">Hire a coder at San Quentin</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">San Quentin launched a coding class to give inmates a marketable skill -- both behind bars and once they get out.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> TSgt Joshua Copeland Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:58:41 -0500 2014-12-07T14:58:41-05:00 2014-12-07T14:58:41-05:00