Hogan is a doctoral student in computer science at UC San Diego and lives in Santee. This fall will be my third time teaching introductory computer science inside Richard J. Donovan Correctional ...

A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot at landing jobs in the tech industry and avoid returning to prison.

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Inmates at the Blair County Prison could gain access to correctional-grade computer tablets this year, pending the county’s renewal of a telephone and communication services contract.

(PENDLETON, Ind.) – Indiana’s expanding its effort to turn prisoners into programmers, with a big assist from Google. Google is donating $2 million to the Last Mile, the nonprofit devoted to teaching ...

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has a host of policies controlling which books people can have in prisons, how they can get them, and what they can do with them.

The internet was still in its infancy when John F. Coburn went to prison in 1991. Video cassette recorders or VCRs were still popular. CDs were just beginning to replace cassette tapes and movies were ...

Nearly half of all people released from U.S. prisons are back behind bars within five years. But research shows that training programs can help break that cycle and prepare people for successful lives ...