State prison's web development shop gives inmates a fresh start

San Quentin State Prison in California has an in-house web development startup called The Last Mile Works, in which inmates build websites for businesses and organizations on the outside. An offshoot of a nonprofit called The Last Mile, which teaches coding skills inside prisons, the works program pays prisoners $16.79 an hour and, so far, has worked with companies like Airbnb and Dave’s Killer Bread on small web development projects.

Later this month, its biggest project yet – a full redesign of the Coalition for Public Safety’s website – will launch, adding to a work portfolio inmates can use to land a job when they are released.

Other work opportunities in the prison pay as little as 23 cents per hour.

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