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Submission + - Even Silicon Valley's Prison Inmates Have Their Own Startup Incubator (vice.com)

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pigrabbitbear writes: "There’s a specific and stereotypical set of activities that spring to mind when you imagine what prison inmates do with their spare time. If there’s a yard, they probably hang out, lift weights, get in fights, organize gangs. If there’s not a yard, they might read books, write letters, get in fights, organize gangs. They don’t write business plans and get giddy over startup ideas.

But that’s exactly what’s happening at San Quentin State Prison, about an hour north of Silicon Valley. For the first time this year, the Last Mile program at the maximum security facility helped five inmates learn the ins and outs of social media and entrepreneurship in an effort to connect those who’ve been inside for several years with the technological reality of life on the outside. The tricky part about the future forward program is that many of its participants have never used a computer, and, since prison regulations forbid any contact with the outside world, won’t be able to use on until they’ve served their sentences."

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