Over the last two years Code/Out has done some amazing work. We have built relationships with tech companies, helping them address and change their hiring policies. Code/Out established relationships with the Department of Juvenile Justice and Fulton County Officials. We managed to begin and run classes for over six months inside the prison system. We …
I’ve hung out with a murderer. One day, in the fall of 2016, I sat across a table from the man who took my brother’s life. We were in a prison in South Texas. Our meeting occurred in the visitation space used during the weekends. It had vending machines and institutional lighting. It was one …
Trilogy of Reasons, Part 3: I’ve Hung Out with a Murderer Read More »
There are pros and cons to training programs in prisons. You begin with a captive audience (pun intended). The folks inside, who have nothing else to do, are attending classes you are giving and are motivated to do well because if they don’t, they go back to what they were doing before….nothing. So attention and …
Why in the world start a nonprofit helping people in prison? The answers are simple for me but there are three of them and it gets complicated. They’re simple but they aren’t easy. So instead of laying them all on ya in one felt swoop I decided it would be better if I did a …
Trilogy of Reasons, Part Two: I Should DEFINITELY Be In Jail. Read More »
People ask me all the time what my reasoning was for starting a nonprofit and specifically one that has a goal of helping people within the prison industrial complex. The answers are easy for me but there are three of them and it gets complicated. Besides, kinda like me they’re petty intense. So instead of …
Trilogy of Reasons, Part One: The Desire of Chaplaincy. Read More »
Getting something started is never easy. Figuring out how to get it going is even harder. Doing it in the midst of a gig economy while you already have three part time jobs is insane. Realizing you have no idea what you’re doing and doing it anyway? Scary. As. Hell. Yet, I’ve come to realize …
The movement: Why nonprofits started by millennials are the best idea ever. Read More »
Code/Out started as a dream which was created out of necessity. I needed a job, and I wanted one that allowed me to create change in people’s lives for the better. After participating in some social justice processes – death penalty reform and victim/offender mediation (you can read on that process HERE) – I realized that …
