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.

REPORTEDLY, a training agency in Wenjiao district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, has seen the scale of its computer programming class increase exponentially from dozens of students to tens of thousands ...

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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 ...