A great story on the Un-loop.org program and the good work they are doing at WCCW.
They do a good job of showcasing the education opportunities as well as addressing the issues that former inmates face post release.
A second chance: Local program teaches female inmates how to code
What do you get when you take a football fan and teach them to code? A football website.
For those of you who are up on this stuff, HTML/CSS/Photoshop were used to build the graphics and do layout, JQuery was used to make things more interactive (e.g. transitions), and PHP/MySQL was used to create the members area.
What kind of doors open up to someone who can literally create their own web product? I can think of a few very rich guys who started with just that.