“I’ve seen contraband smartphones,” he told The Examiner on Thursday. “But I never touched them.”
The Last Mile was founded in 2010 and came to San Quentin the same year with an entrepreneurship course that has since been discontinued. The coding courses were introduced in 2014. Chris Schuhmacher, one of the members of that first class, spoke at Thursday’s ceremony. San Quentin, the state’s oldest and most notorious prison, has long been home to the vast majority of California’s condemned prisoners. They will be transferred away by the summer, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as the state closes the facility’s death row.
McCracken said that while the entrepreneurship program was discontinued, it’s coming back in collaboration with GoDaddy, an internet domain-registry company. Ethics overhaul lands easy victory Prop. D, a measure to strengthen and unify The City's ethics laws was garnering nearly 90% of the vote in early returns.
“It’s been life-changing,” he said. “It’s really opened my eyes to the technology side and the business side of coding.” “It took me 1,340 lines of code to do a five-page website,” said Johnson, whose website — an employment-preparation program — isn’t accessible to the public because San Quentin operates on a closed network.
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