Incarceration to Software Engineers–Changing Lives Through Education & Second Chances
summary
A nonprofit program called The Last Mile teaches incarcerated people to code with a yearlong curriculum (six months web dev fundamentals, six months full‑stack) using volunteer instructors, virtual lectures and in‑cell workflows that work without internet; students learn JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, React and Jekyll, build a website in a week, and create reentry plans from day one. Outcomes: zero percent recidivism among graduates, scaling to 23 classrooms in under a year and backed by $2 million from Google.org with a goal to certify 525 people.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Jason Jones & Last Mile intro
- 3:07Last Mile transformed Jason’s life
- 6:18Jason’s prison journey
- 9:46First coding lesson
- 12:32Mentoring after release
- 16:20Mass incarceration impact
- 20:56Humanizing incarcerated people
- 24:29Last Mile’s future
- 27:35Family & community impact
- 30:43Students’ journeys
- 32:48Support Last Mile
- 34:55Recidivism & societal change
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