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2023
January 2023
The Arizona State University Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is a community-based learning program through a partnership between the ASU Center for Correctional Solutions and the Arizona Department of Corrections that focuses on rehabilitation and reentry. During the semester, 10 ASU students visit with 10 incarcerated students with the ultimate goal of breaking down the walls between the classroom and prison.
Kevin Wright, associate professor and director of the Center for Correctional Solutions within the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said another important goal is to empower students to impact their communities positively.
“I love being in Watts because this work actually lifts people up. It's not just stuff we can do and give lip service to, and the work is amazing,” Wright said.
The program has facilitated nine Inside-Out classes at three prisons, with more than 175 inside and outside students identifying as alumni.
https://news.asu.edu/20221213-university-news-2022-presidents-awards-honor-asu-employees
University of Illinois Chicago Law students participated in a transformative learning experience called The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program® in support of the university's continuous advocacy for restorative justice.
After participating in the Inside-Out program at Howard University, current University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) Dean of Libraries Rhea Ballard-Thrower was excited to bring this program to UIC Law after hearing about the university’s extensive restorative justice work.
Dean Ballard-Thrower, a former law librarian and member of the UIC Law faculty, titled her course, “Students in Jail.” The course is designed to break down barriers, biases, and prejudgments by bringing together students and residents from diverse cultures and backgrounds and creating an environment conducive to learning and connecting on a human level.
In the Fall of 2022, Gwynedd Mercy University’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program graduated 14 outside and 11 inside students. Inside and outside students have the unique opportunity to meet and exchange thoughts and perspectives about social inequalities, prison reform, and restorative justice.
“Realizing there’s another group of people just like you who were incarcerated because of different life circumstances is a truly transformative experience for students and instructors alike,” says Associate Professor and Criminal Justice Program Coordinator, Patrick McGrain. “You can’t get this kind of experience in the classroom or even through an internship.”
Molly Fleming, one of GMercyU’s Criminal Justice students, participated in the program. “Inside-Out was an experience like no other. I wish every student could have the opportunity to take this course. This class was extremely eye opening and provided me with incredible insight on the reality of prison life. Having the class in the prison and physically being with the inside students created such a unique learning atmosphere,” Molly said.
Students in Roanoke College’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program led a yoga meditation during a Dec. 1 graduation celebration for the initiative's fall semester course, “Peacemaking in World Religions.” This fall’s class was the fourth held by the local program and the first since the pandemic began.
“What we are trying to do is to empathetically engage and to learn more as we see what kind of peace we might be able to create and why it might be important to people around the world today,” said Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy Melanie Trexler, who led this semester’s course.
“We live together in society and have the responsibility to all learn together,” she added.
https://www.roanoke.edu/about/news/inside_out_graduation_2022
Westminster College has appointed Jamie Chapman as director of the All-College Honors Program. She currently serves as an associate professor of sociology at Westminster College and will begin her new duties during Summer 2023.
Chapman, who joined the Westminster faculty in 2014, specializes in mental health, medical sociology, and has a growing interest in the subfield of criminology. Currently the program coordinator for the Department of Criminal Justice Studies and Sociology, Chapman is trained to teach in The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program®. Through this program, Chapman teaches a class inside a prison that includes 11 traditional Westminster students and 11 incarcerated students. She recently offered a criminology course to a group in an Ohio prison.
February 2023
Led by Matt DelSesto ’12, Boston College undergraduates are learning side-by-side with incarcerated students at a local prison, with mutually beneficial results.
Bridgeport Correctional Center students graduated in an inaugural UNT Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program closing ceremony. At the event, both inside and outside students gave speeches, received certificates, and enjoyed a post-award reception. One of the inside students even composed and performed original music for the program.
“The closing ceremony was the highlight of my career at UNT,” said Haley Zettler, assistant professor and organizer of the UNT program. “Everyone was able to see the hard work that the students put into the semester, and how much they grew as individuals and as a group. The emotions were felt by all in attendance, and I could not be prouder of my students.”
2022
January 2022
We'd like to extend a special thank you to the panelists from our December 14th session: John Pace (Phila.), Jesse Dorsz (MD), April Lee (Phila.), Kenny Matthews (WV), Giovanni Reid (Phila.), and Joe Schwartz (Phila.). These six people beautifully express the spirit of Inside-Out — the importance of breaking down walls, the power of dialogue, the discovery of one’s voice, and the humility, openness, and empathy that are integral to the Inside-Out journey.
The voices of these six alumni offer powerful and immediate insight into the qualities that make Inside-Out such an impactful program. Tune in to our December 14th, 2021 Zoom session to hear stories from each of their unique perspectives, and gain a deeper understanding of the program’s impact.
February 2022
A growing number of service-learning classes bring students into jails and prisons, stepping across what Alexander (2010) might call the new Jim Crow color line created by mass incarceration. Many of these courses are part of the innovative Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which brings inside and outside students together in a shared college class. Drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and 8 years of experience teaching Inside-Out courses, this article explores the ways students construct racial identities and understand racial hierarchies as they work together behind bars.
Kate O’Brien, Hannah King, Josie Phillips, Dalton, Kath & Phoenix (2021)
This article evaluates the state’s responsibility to provide “education for all," demonstrated through collective participation in The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, the value and importance of prison education beyond the current focus on risk, responsibility and recidivism. The authors evidence the transformative and humanizing potential of higher education in prison through three key elements – the space and learning environment; the role of voice, recognition and agency; and the power of disruptive and transgressive teaching practice. The authors shine a light on education in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic and consider how they can expedite “education as the practice of freedom” for those who are incarcerated during and beyond the pandemic.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131911.2021.1996335#.YbijW6-2fG8.twitter
When the pandemic prevented a College of Wooster professor from teaching at a local correctional facility as planned, she brought the incarcerated students to her campus classroom virtually by using robots instead.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/03/01/professor-uses-robots-engage-incarcerated-students
Participants learn, share, seek to understand each other’s lives, perspectives.
Imagine a class so meaningful to students that one says it is changing her life, while another pledges to cherish the experience she’s having for the rest of hers. A third calls it the most important class he’s taken in his degree program.
April 2022
"The pandemic has been challenging, but you didn't give up. You pushed through and you showed resiliency. This is a unique opportunity to demonstrate what can happen when the worst thing happens. None of us could have predicted it, but through the foresight of partnerships, past relationships and the will to get it done, you've been able to accomplish this through a pandemic. I don't want us to take that lightly." - Gwynedd Mercy University Inside-Out Closing Ceremony
https://www.facebook.com/100002531831358/videos/308098581189919/
A new Inside-Out course at University of West Florida will introduce students to contemporary social justice issues by looking at policies with their new classmates, men from the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution. The course, Contemporary Social Justice Issues, is part of The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which brings together 15 UWF students and 13 incarcerated men to foster discussions on issues that affect both students and those behind bars.
https://news.uwf.edu/uwf-offers-regions-first-inside-out-prison-exchange-course/
In this discussion, we find out what impact higher education can have for formerly incarcerated Hoosiers, why so many obstacles remain in the way, and discuss ongoing efforts to improve access. Produced by Drew Daudelin.
Guests:
- Susan Hyatt, Professor, Department of Anthropology at IUPUI
- Kristina Byers, Program Manager, PACE
- Angela Phelps, Peer Recovery Coach, PACE
- Zaynab Cornelius, Case Management and Community Organizer, Groundwork Indy
Inside-Out as Humanistic Pedagogy
By Matthew J. DelSesto, David L. Sellers
This article explores one particular community-based pedagogy known as Inside-Out, which brings incarcerated students together with students from a college campus to study together at a local prison or jail.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01605976221080169?journalCode=hasa
The Origins of Criminological Theory
Edited by Omi Hodwitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Culture, Society and Justice, University of Idaho
The central objective of The Origins of Criminological Theory is to inform readers of the significant role the past has played in our contemporary theories of crime. Each chapter is co-authored by an inside and an outside student – the outcome of an Inside-Out program in Idaho.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Origins-of-Criminological-Theory/Hodwitz/p/book/9781032055329
May 2022
Jeff Gingerich, who took the Inside-Out Training in 2005, began doing Inside-Out classes at Cabrini College (now University), where he was a faculty member in the Sociology Department. While in the Philadelphia area, Jeff was an active member of the Graterford Think Tank for several years. He became Dean and then Provost at Cabrini and remained in that role until he moved to the University of Scranton as Provost in 2018. Jeff has now been named the incoming president of St. Bonaventure University in New York.
https://www.sbu.edu/news/2022/03/08/dr.-jeff-gingerich-named-st.-bonaventure%27s-22nd-president
Kenneth Butler, who pursued his Pitzer College degree through Inside-Out courses while incarcerated in a medium-security prison in California, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Program grant to study the lives of men released from a maximum-security prison in Uganda. Butler, one of the College’s 12 Fulbright awardees so far this year, is the first formerly incarcerated student from Pitzer to win a Fulbright. Kenny also serves as one of Inside-Out’s coaches for our Virtual Instructor Training Programs.
This year, the University of West Florida joined the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, taking students to the Santa Rosa County Correctional Institution. In this podcast, the hosts talk to one of the teachers, and a student in the program.
https://www.wamc.org/show/the-best-of-our-knowledge/2022-04-28/1649-a-blind-man-crazy-for-color
June 2022
When Ohio Northern University criminal justice major Christafer Suarez, BS '22, received his diploma this spring, it marked the end of the first phase of his professional education. Suarez’s experience as a criminal justice student at ONU helped present him with a range of experiential learning opportunities, none more impactful than the intense, hands-on, high-impact Inside-Out program.
https://www.onu.edu/news/inside-track-success
The DePaul University Sankofa Black Student Formation Program hosted a celebration of the wealth of Black excellence, the first-ever at DePaul to recognize the accomplishments of students, faculty, and alumni. Inside-Out was honored to receive special recognition for training faculty and students. Additionally, Inside-Out trained instructor Christina Rivers’ Inside-Out class received the Excellence in Scholarship, Perseverance, and Solidarity award.
Pitzer College alumnus Freddy Cisneros ’21, who graduated last year with a degree in organizational studies, has been accepted to the Executive Fellowship Program, a 10-month public policy fellowship offered through Sacramento State University’s Capital Fellows Programs. Cisneros is one of eight members of an initial cohort of students from the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) who have graduated from Pitzer through the Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA program.
Kenneth Butler credited his grandmother's encouragement and his experience in Pitzer's Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA Program for the transformation in his life and talked about his Fulbright plan to study Uganda's prison system and its low recidivism rate.
"If I wouldn't have enrolled in this program, I don't know what my life would have been."
In 1995, Lori Pompa, a professor with the criminal justice department at Temple University, toured the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Pennsylvania, with 15 undergraduate students. This sparked an idea—The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program—that is now an international #TempleMade concept that changes people’s lives.
Check out this Q&A with Lori Pompa, the founder and executive director of The Inside-Out Center at Temple, the international headquarters of the program.
July 2022
In this article, Kenneth Butler, Yusef Pierce, and Daniel Duron’s achievements are highlighted as they discuss their academic experience with Pitzer College’s Inside-Out Program taught by Inside-Out trained instructor Nigel Boyle. Their journey to earn a degree at Pitzer illustrates the potential for hundreds of thousands of people who are incarcerated. Their stories also highlight some of the unique challenges and limitations that education alone won't fix.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106424742/college-financial-aid-prison
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an effort to get students to address issues involving crime and justice. Check out this interview with Kevin Wright, Director of ASU’s Center for Correctional Solutions, and Bruce Ward, an ASU student who took part in the program.
https://azpbs.org/horizon/2022/05/inside-out-prison-exchange-program/
Many students describe the education they’ve received as an opportunity to unlock potential and further success. Richard Strong, who was sentenced in life in prison in 2012, has used the opportunity to become a 4.0 dean’s list student, Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society member, and a member of the MDOC’s mentoring program to help support others with mental health issues or those having trouble adjusting to life in prison. Strong also has written three books, is the vice president of the National Lifers of America Chapter 1024, and has been a teacher’s aide in Albion College’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
August 2022
Jay Barth, who took the Inside-Out Training in 2018, was named Director of the Clinton Library in March of this year. Jay has been on the faculty of Hendrix College in Arkansas for 26 years prior to this appointment. He brought the Inside-Out program to Hendrix during his time on the faculty there. ]
Muhlenberg’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program receives a $231,000 federal grant to expand its efforts to use education as a tool to end mass incarceration and support citizenship and democracy.
https://www.muhlenberg.edu/news/2022/inside-outprisonexchangeprogram.html
Dr. Ashley Pryor from the University of Toledo shared about her work and experience with The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program and the art that the students created.
November 2022
In the Summer 2022, Molly Robinson, associate professor of French, completed The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program’s Instructor Training, thanks to a faculty grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Center for Community and Global Health.
The interview was conducted by Molly Gibbons, an Inside-Out intern also from Lewis & Clark, who took the instructor training as part of their Mellon Grant, in partnership with Inside-Out.
https://college.lclark.edu/live/news/49501-from-the-inside-out-5-questions-for-molly-robinson
Campus Compact has announced 15 faculty and staff selected as the '22-'23 cohort of Engaged Scholars. Inside-Out Instructor Delphia Shanks of Hendrix College was among those selected.
https://www.hendrix.edu/delphia-shanks-engaged-scholars-initiative/
“Those lessons melted the prison walls away for me. When we stepped in the classroom, we were all just students, together as peers. We turned in weekly homework and discussed topics such as prison reform and what social justice means to someone who may never be free.”
-- Inside Student, Jeffrey Shockley
https://www.publicsource.org/pennsylvania-prison-life-sentence-programming-rehabilitation/
December 2022
University of Illinois Chicago Librarian and Dean of Libraries Rhea Ballard-Thrower has been elected to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 2023 Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2023.
“I am pleased to be elected to the ARL Board of Directors and to be able to continue the diversity, equity and inclusion work I have championed as chair of the association's committee. I am excited to have the opportunity to contribute to additional ARL priorities including academic freedom, privacy and civil and human rights,” said Dean Ballard-Thrower. At UIC, Dean Ballard-Thrower holds the rank of professor in the University Library and an affiliate faculty position at the UIC School of Law, where she teaches advanced legal research using The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program® pedagogy. The program gives law students and incarcerated students the opportunity to take a course together at a correctional facility.
Some photos from the kick-off of the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival where Trained Instructors were proud to represent The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program®!
In recent weeks, several Criminal Justice students from Mercyhurst University were able to participate in a reentry simulation. Mercyhurst students were able to work alongside incarcerated individuals during the simulation. Maria L. Garase, Ph.D., associate professor of Criminal Justice and associate dean of the Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences, gave an interview to share more about the simulation.
On Wednesday, outside students from Keystone College sat alongside inside students at SCI Waymart in Wayne County as part of an international program called The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program® based at Temple University.
Stacey Wyland Berlinski is an associate professor at Keystone and leads the program at Keystone. Berlinski says it's designed to give incarcerated students and college students a different perspective and enable them to learn more about each other. “We talk about criminal justice, the system in and of itself. We talk about social justice issues, and we look at ways that we can improve the criminal justice system."
2021
March 2021
The Police Training Inside-Out program, instructed by Norman Conti, a professor of sociology at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania, is the only one of its kind in the country.
https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Razvan-Sibii-37771690
April 2021
Pitzer College’s Inside-Out program allows students from the Claremont Colleges to take classes with students incarcerated at the California Rehabilitation Center.
https://tsl.news/virtual-inside-out-classes/
May 2021
How you describe someone can impact their lives greatly. In this article, Inside-Out's founder Lori Pompa says "Labeling people only limits them."
“A phrase that I really like a lot is ‘justice-involved,’ ” she said. “There doesn’t seem to be as much of a charge to that or set of assumptions that go with that.”
https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/how-you-refer-to-formerly-incarcerated-people-matters
In this podcast episode, The Criminology Academy speaks with Doctoral Candidate Juwan Bennett about his work on the impacts of perceived legitimacy and perceived opportunities on delinquency, as well as a brief discussion on the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Juwan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He is originally from the Philadelphia area and received his bachelor’s in criminal justice from Temple University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2013.
http://thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-17-bennett/
In the years since its launch, Pitt’s Inside-Out program has grown. This article, appearing in the Spring 2021 edition of Pitt Magazine features Pitt professors Gabby Yearwood, Chris Bonneau, Shalini Puri, Cory Holding and Nancy Glazener, who are involved with the Pitt Prison Education Project.
https://www.pittmag.pitt.edu/news/inside-out
The City of Philadelphia today announced that the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Cluster's Office of Criminal Justice will award twenty microgrants to community organizations that support the criminal justice reform efforts of the Kenney Administration. Resources for this effort are provided by the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge.
June 2021
On Saturday, May 15, Yusef Pierce ('21) and Freddy Cisneros (’21) graduated from Pitzer College through the College’s new Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA program. Pierce and Cisneros are two of eight members of an initial cohort of students from the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC).
July 2021
Why Not Prosper, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit founded by a formerly incarcerated woman for formerly incarcerated women, is committed to providing programs and services that support women in their reentry efforts.
“Women have very specific needs,” says Ann Schwartzmann, coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program at Temple University, and a supporter of Why Not Prosper. “It’s not necessarily like men coming home because women often have children to take care of or maybe their parents.”
“Sitting in a classroom with professors and students is scary, humbling and exciting. It has changed my life.”
In this piece published by the Marshall Project, Jy’Aire Smith-Pennick discusses how programs like Inside-Out can provide life-changing opportunities.
August 2021
Ashley Appleby believes in second chances and opportunities for all of her students, both inside and outside of the traditional and non-traditional classroom. Appleby participated in The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program with Quinnipiac in 2016. Once a week, she and several classmates traveled to Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Connecticut, where they learned alongside — and from — eight of the facility’s incarcerated individuals.
The experience not only inspired her to pursue a PhD in criminal justice, but to continue working with incarcerated individuals both inside and outside the traditional and non-traditional classrooms. Today, she is both a student, alumna and a certified instructor for The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
"We were one of the very few Inside-Out programs that was fortunate to run during the pandemic. We learned that a virtual pedagogical approach can increase programmatic opportunities for all correctional institutions, even post-COVID, if correctional staff are open to its implementation and willing to work collaboratively with outside program providers," said Dyson Professor of Criminal Justice Kimberly Collica-Cox, PhD, in her second year of college programming for the Westchester County Department of Correction (WCDOC).
The writing-enhanced course, which featured the use of innovative tools and secure technology, as well as donated laptops from Pace, provided three college credits upon completion.
https://www.pace.edu/news/turning-education-inside-out
Women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women joined a class on memoir writing alongside USC students, facilitating empathy and new perspectives on prison. A USC Dornsife course on memoir writing gave students a chance to work through the isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Liam Kenney, Vancouver Island University (VIU) grad and this year’s recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal, discusses his involvement with a variety of community programs, including VIU’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.
https://www.viu.ca/blog/catching-years-recipient-lieutenant-governors-medal
September 2021
Inside-Out: Bringing Law Students Face-to-Face With Injustice by Romie Griesmer was recently published in the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class. Griesmer argues that "...adding Inside-Out courses to our law school curricula can play a pivotal role in justice learning, with an eye towards transforming our deeply flawed criminal system."
https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/rrgc/vol21/iss1/3/
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has awarded its next Martha A. Mitten Professorship to Elyshia Aseltine, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice. Since joining TU in 2012, Aseltine has increased opportunities for TU students and faculty to be involved in the civic life of the Baltimore region through initiatives like the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which brings incarcerated students and college students together for a term-long course held inside a correctional institution, and the Fair Chance Higher Education initiative, which focuses on building campus infrastructure to support justice-impacted students.
The Urban Inequality and Incarceration (UII) program at the Lang Center seeks to explore intersections of race, inequality, mass imprisonment, and policy and their connections to the carceral disparities present in our local and global communities. Its current work centers on incarceration and includes transformative Inside-Out Prison Exchange courses at the State Correctional Institution in neighboring Chester; research on the impact of incarceration on children who have an incarcerated parent; Social Justice Impact Legal Internships; and other student-based learning such as directed reading and thesis opportunities.
https://www.swarthmore.edu/lang-center/urban-inequality-incarceration
October 2021
Inside-Out Trained Instructors are developing the framework to form the first prison education network in Mexico! The two-day discussion, held September 22nd-23rd, brought together some of the best prison education professors in Latin America. The DEEDUC, the ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara and the Network of Education in Contexts of Prison Lockdown in Mexico, Node Jalisco, invited those interested to join the discussion via Facebook Live on their page at Departamento de Estudios en Educación. The event was held in Spanish.
Fifteen years ago, Kenny Butler was at a low point. He had just been sentenced to life in prison. Now Butler, 47, is on track to earn his bachelor’s degree through a new program at Pitzer College, a small private liberal arts school in Southern California. The program, which began last December and which the school says is the first of its kind in the nation, is based on Inside-Out curriculum — a type of teaching that brings college students and professors into prisons to learn alongside incarcerated students. Pitzer, a selective school that accepts fewer than 20% of applicants, started the Inside-Out program with the goal of helping incarcerated students better engage with coursework and make connections with the outside world — a key factor in reintegrating back into society.
November 2021
University of North Texas will begin working with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, an educational program grounded in the belief that society is stronger when education is accessible and offered in a way that allows students to learn as equals. Haley Zettler, an assistant professor in the UNT Department of Criminal Justice, has previously worked with the Inside-Out program and is excited to offer classes in the North Texas area.
Charles Bell is an assistant professor of criminal justice sciences at Illinois State University and an Inside-Out trained Instructor. Bell's new publication, Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety, focuses on understanding Black students', parents', and teachers views on school suspension and its impact on students' grades, parents' employment, school violence, as well as their views on metal detectors, guards, and law enforcement officers. Focusing on schools in inner-city and suburban Detroit, Bell draws on 160 in-depth interviews with Black high school students, their parents, and their teachers to illuminate the negative outcomes that are associated with out-of-school suspension. A thought-provoking and urgent work, Suspended calls for an inclusive national dialogue on school punishment and safety reform. Check out the video trailer here.
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/suspended
Open-mindedness, optimism, inspiration and transformation. These were the words used to express the sentiments of students at a recent ceremony to mark the end of the Inside-Out Prison Program Men and Feminism course that brought together students from Barrett, The Honors College, at Arizona State University and the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.
Fifteen years ago, Kenny Butler was at a low point. He had just been sentenced to life in prison. Now Butler, 47, is on track to earn his bachelor’s degree through a new program at Pitzer College, a small private liberal arts school in Southern California. The program, which began last December and which the school says is the first of its kind in the nation, is based on Inside-Out curriculum — a type of teaching that brings college students and professors into prisons to learn alongside incarcerated students.
December 2021
On Monday, November 8th, the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank, an Inside-Out group founded at SCI-Pittsburgh and currently based at Duquesne University, hosted a virtual screening and ninety-minute panel discussion of the second episode of the Philly DA series. The docuseries co-creator, Ted Passon was joined by Larry Krasner, the Philadelphia District Attorney, along with Inside-Out instructors Autumn Redcross, the founding director of the Abolitionist Law Center’s Court Watch program, and David Harris, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, who produces an outstanding podcast, Criminal (In)Justice. The panel also included activist and writer Leon Ford, along with Ricky Olds, the Executive Director from the House of Life-Pittsburgh and MA student in Applied and Public Sociology at Duquesne. The conversation focused on police-community relations, juvenile justice, and reimagining justice in our democracy.
Ohio State’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program provides students inside and outside with community and innovative educational opportunities. Led by trained instructor Dr. Tiyi Morris, associate professor in the Department of African American and African Studies, the program offers academic credit with the university for all participants.
Newcastle Cathedral has commissioned a series of talks, the ‘Illuminate’ series, throughout November and December to coincide with their annual Lantern Festival. Included in the series: Dr. Kate O’Brien, Director of the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Durham University and Inside-Out trained instructor discussing how through their own work, opportunities can be created for vulnerable communities to be understood, respected and heard.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/newcastle-cathedrals-historic-lantern-tower-22098807
Trained instructor Dr. Jen Tilton's new article builds on the conversation about how we make sense of race and confront racism working together in our Inside-Out classrooms.
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