NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Stacey Books, Tennessee Director for Persevere Now, explains how the program provides resources to teach coding to incarcerated individuals, and how it reduces recidivism.

Coding is the key Sean Hosman, who has a long history of incarceration, founded the prison transition program Persevere in 2014. He's now the chairman of the Persevere board.

On Friday, WCI “formally celebrated” the Persevere Program coming to its facility. Persevere is a year-long course focusing on training inmates to become full-stack web developers.

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While incarcerated, he started taking coding classes through Persevere. And now that he's out, he has a job through the program.

A new program is teaching a small group of incarcerated men the tools of a new trade — coding and web design — in the hopes that it can help the men succeed when they are released.

Nathan Campbell, who was convicted of arson and has been an inmate at Wakulla C.I. since 2022, was searching for a program to help him stay away from old habits, and along came Persevere.

Women earn coding certification while serving time at a South Carolina prison The program is to certify them as full stack developers.