A person who was imprisoned at the age of 18 and received programming education in prison became the chief technology officer of the company after release, to support prison education
Jessica Hicklin, who was imprisoned for 26 years for murder, co-founded UnLocked Labs, a company that provides in-prison education, after parole and became Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Mr. Hicklin's education was indirectly contributed by the programming technology community ' Stack Overflow '.
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Mr. Hicklin entered juvenile hall in 1997 when he was 16 years old. Suffering from severe paranoia due to his methamphetamine addiction, Mr. Hicklin was charged with murder and armed crimes for shooting his friend three times after failing a drug deal while trying to pay off his mother's debt while still a gambling addict. was sentenced to life in prison without parole and 100 years in prison. However, after that, it became a parole law in 2022 with the benefit of another Supreme Court and appeals court ruling that it was unconstitutional to impose heavy punishment on minors.
In prison, Mr. Hicklin identified himself as transgender and has been working to improve transgender rights in prison, and is known as the first transgender inmate to ask for sex hormones. In addition to this, I was brushing up my programming skills by taking a programming curriculum that was held in prison.
Now free at the age of 42, Mr. Hicklin is working on a new job as CTO of Unlocked Labs, using the knowledge he learned in prison. It is said that Hicklin's success was greatly contributed by the community 'Stack Overflow' that shares programming technology.
Various prisoner education programs are being developed in the United States, but in programming education in particular, more than 20 million Q&As shared by Stack Overflow have contributed greatly. However, because it is a community on the Internet, there was a drawback that it could not be used by prisoners who could not connect to the Internet. Hicklin also used an XML file containing a dataset that a friend gave him at the time.
Therefore, Stack Overflow has announced a new initiative `` Overflow Offline '' that can acquire knowledge even in an offline environment, and has revealed that it will work to deliver the dataset to the people who need it. Stack Overflow is working with Kiwix, a non-profit organization that brought Wikipedia to the offline environment, to reduce the size of the dataset and improve readability.
As a result, in addition to companies such as Unlocked Labs that conducts educational activities in prisons, data sets will be delivered to various places, from scientific research institutions and educational institutions in areas with poor Internet access.
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