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Doesn't Techstars have a program which specifically trains people to code while they are still in jail, and then helps them find work afterwards?

You could get in touch with the people who run that program, they could certainly provide leads.

Which is a great idea; because by giving someone a viable non-criminal way to make a living, they are under much less pressure to resort to non-legally sanctioned employment after release, i.e. after they have PAID their debt to society (assuming that they were actually guilty, and guilty of something which would incur a debt to society... neither of which is necessarily true for any given prisoner).