There’s a constant need for adept programmers in Atlanta’s growing tech industry, and national nonprofit Persevere is working to help fill that gap with people coming out of incarceration.
They offer a one-year program teaching full-stack software development and life skills through corrections systems.
Their first class of 12 graduates recently completed the course at the Metro Reentry Facility in Atlanta.
While the state as a whole is experiencing record low unemployment at about 3%, the formerly incarcerated are unemployed at a rate of over 27%.
Georgia has around 47,000 prisoners incarcerated and is ranked number four on the list of states with the highest prison populations.
