You never leave San Quentin State Prison the same way you came in.
For 18 inmates of one of the state's most notorious prisons, the re-entry to life on the outside comes with programming skills.
Four days a week, instructors from Hack Reactor go to San Quentin State Prison to teach inmates how to code, USA Today reports.
The program is called Code.7370, which USA Today says is a "rigorous new coding boot camp."
The program boasts participants will be able to score "entry-level Web developer" jobs within six months of stepping in front of a monitor and typing their first keystrokes.
Some of the participants had never even seen a computer or smartphone.
A total of 100 men applied for the spots in the class, many of whom began serving prison terms before or during the first dot-com boom.
