Story
San Quentin's coding program with a near-zero recidivism rate
Sam recounts visiting The Last Mile at San Quentin, founded by investor Chris Redlitz, which teaches inmates web skills (WordPress, front-end) so they can land jobs - some at companies like Slack - and over a decade had essentially zero recidivism among graduates.
“he was a god there because everyone knows if you get into his program, they have a 0% or they had a zero recidivism rate, meaning everyone over the last 10 years who went through their program, not one of them went back to prison.”
Idea
Give every prisoner a locked-down iPhone - 'as big as T-Mobile'
Sam describes Chris Redlitz's new for-profit startup to give inmates internet-disabled iPhones for tracking, education, and work prep - undercutting the price-gouging incumbent prepaid providers - with Redlitz predicting it could become as big as T-Mobile.
“He wants to give an iPhone to all the prisoners. Now, I don't know if this means like low security, high security. I don't know which prisoners exactly, but he wants to give an iPhone to all of them. They won't be able to use the internet, but it's a way to track them, to send them education stuff so they can learn how to prepare for work a lot of really cool stuff.”