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Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.
A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.
Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody. He was transferred from a prison in New Hampshire to the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Maine just before the pandemic struck, allowing him to rekindle hope anew. “When I came back, it gave me a heightened sense of understanding post-traumatic stress and trauma, and all of that plays into corrections,” Commissioner Liberty told TechCrunch.
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