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California Prisoners to Get Jobs as Programmers

By Jessica Guynn California inmates can earn cash by making license plates for state residents. Soon they’ll be able to get paid for writing code. In a first for the country, prisoners at San Quentin State Prison are being considered for jobs as computer programmers. If everything goes as planned, they will work on projects

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Prison Closures Cause Economic Turmoil

By Prison Legal News Shrinking state budgets across the country is leading to prison closures that, in turn, have a negative impact on communities that depend on the facilities as a source of jobs and revenue. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.1; April 2009, p.1]. Small towns in Kentucky, Georgia, and New York are among those

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