Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by tyingq on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:26AM
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In this particular case, I think it's worth it even it is self serving. The advent of cheap online background checks has added to the already difficult task of getting a job if you're a felon. Any publicity around hiring them helps normalize it as expected.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by pytester on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:37AM
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This piece of PR fluff isn't helping regular ex cons get regular jobs in non-tight labor markets.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by tyingq on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:03AM
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If you look at what funded the article, at the bottom, I believe that's the intent. Though, yes, they did over gush about Slack.
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by robsinatra on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:05PM
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I'm waiting for the moral grandstanders to take to social media and try to publicly shame companies for refusing to hire their trained ex-cons
Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
by TulliusCicero on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:06AM
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They're playing the PR game and winning. I find it hard to blame them for that. Especially since they're not lying or doing anything explicitly harmful.
Yet they expect congratulations. Slack's selfish commercial interest is entirely aligned with hiring cheap developers, but, they put out a press release and the atlantic magazine took it up.
I worked with a another charity that did a similar thing (not prisoners, but the underprivileged) and one of the companies we got some of them jobs at did the same thing.
The company got some cheap developers, avoided commission on a recruitment agency and then proceeded to issue a press release patting themselves on the back.