People who are incarcerated are paid notoriously low wages for kitchen, laundry work and maintenance.

But the expanded use of laptops is creating other opportunities.

This is part two in a two-part series about remote work in Maine prisons. To read part one, click here .

Preston Thorpe is only 32, but he says he’s already landed his dream job as a senior software engineer and bought a modest house with his six-figure salary. It was all accomplished by putting in long days from his cell at the Mountain View Correctional Center in Charleston.

“It’s not normal to have 15-17 hours a day to really focus on something and learn something, like deeply,” Thorpe says. “And fortunately tech is one of the few areas where they’re not concerned with your college degree. They’re really only concern

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