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A new study demonstrates the efficacy of Brave Behind Bars, an MIT-led web programming course aimed at reducing recidivism by teaching incarcerated individuals digital skills, with significant improvements in self-efficacy and digital literacy noted.
A programming language textbook might not be the first thing you’d expect to see when walking into a correctional facility. The creators of the Brave
MIT computer scientists and mathematicians created Brave Behind Bars, an introductory computing and career-readiness program for incarcerated women.
MIT’s Educational Justice Institute hopes its pilot program, which brought a web design class to incarcerated women in Maine, can be replicated elsewhere.
MIT PhD student Martin Nisser designs robots that assemble themselves, with the goal of “democratizing” hardware by making it easier to build and customize. “The idea of using math and physics to build something tangible always clicked with me,” he says.