Ask an Inmate a Question on Quora and Help Them Get to Silicon Valley

The social web empowers people who would once be cut off from the world to connect with others and maintain social ties.  This can get tricky when we talk about offering this freedom to convicted felons, but a a San Francisco program called “The Last Mile” is attempting to leverage the web and social media to help train inmates.  The program trains selected inmates for eventual employment as a paid intern in Silicon Valley, and one of their training programs is responding to users’ questions about prison on Quora.