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> San Quentin state prison in California has begun a ground-breaking programme to teach prisoners how to code. What is so ground-breaking on that? Any normal c

• jrochkind1 12y ago
  In most U.S. prisons, prisoners are denied access to computers at all, and especially to the internet, as a general principle. As of a couple years ago, there is a program that offers monitored email to some prisoners in U.S. prisons. Email only. Not only are there no educational programs involving computers, but prisoners are specifically disallowed from using computers for purposes like learning to code. Now, I'm not saying the U.S. is a "normal country".