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From cons to coders: Calif. inmates learn programming
By 13wmaz.com
Published: 11/19/2014

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — The men in prison-issued blues sit side by side at long wood tables, learning to write software code on refurbished computers in a bare-bones lab inside San Quentin State Prison.

On the wall hangs a sign with the famous Steve Jobs slogan "Think Different."

You can't think much differently than this.

Inmates inside these aging walls are cut off from the technology being built just miles away in Silicon Valley. Many have never touched a computer mouse, let alone a smartphone.

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