More than 250 computers are being delivered to nine different adult prisons as well as juvenile detention facilities in Costa Rica to set up computer labs for inmates, the Ministry of Justice and Peace announced on Thursday.

Amongst the institutions that will receive a computer lab is the Buen Pastor women’s prison, ministry officials said. The computer equipment is unused, and was transferred from the Public Registry where the equipment was not needed, officials said.

Just last week, the ministry together with software giant Microsoft announced an agreement by which the California-based software giant will provide free training in web development to select prisoners in Costa Rica’s penal system as part of a pilot project.

Under the initial pilot program, 15 prisoners aged 22 to 53 currently housed in a Heredia prison known as the Centro de Atención Institucional Gerardo Rodríguez, will receive a free course in web development. The prisoners will receive training in web technologies such as HTML-5, Javascript, and CSS.

The prisoners were selected due to good behavior and the fact that they had completed at least two years of high school.

“This agreement is aimed at one of the most important goals of prison management and where we have, probably, failed the most: creating opportunities to facilitate the reintegration of persons deprived of liberty into society,” Justice Minister, Cecilia Sanchez said in a statement.

After completing the course, inmates can elect to complete a certification in “Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3.”

“We are committed to the development of communities in which we operate. We are very pleased to support [a program] that will be useful and open doors once [inmates] leave the center,” said Microsoft Costa Rica chief, Carlos Flores.