Inside-Out classes regularly receive attention in print, radio, and television, with more than 600+ news pieces appearing across North America, Europe, and Australia featuring the Inside-Out model.
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April 7, 2025
Incarcerated people inevitably look forward to their release date, but the transition afterward isn’t always easy.
“I personally had a great support system, and it was still hard for me,” said Adam Petyo, a Muhlenberg College research assistant and student in the school’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Click here for more.
March 10, 2025
Juveniles grow up hearing a multitude of adages about life, such as: “True friends are forever,” “Fake it ’til you make it,” and “Change is a good thing."
However, these adages – and other life advice about behavior in society – are difficult to process for juveniles who were incarcerated at a young age and served long sentences, says J.Z. Bennett, a criminologist at the University of Cincinnati whose research focuses on prison reform. Click here for more.
February 28, 2025
Congratulations to Kevin Wright and Cody Telep, M.S. graduate Cassandra Philippon and doctoral student Olivia Shaw for receiving the 2024 Journal of Criminal Justice Education Article of the Year Award!
Their research highlights the powerful impact of the Inside-Out class on both inside and outside students. Click here for more.
February 20, 2025
In the 1990s, Temple University professor Lori Pompa prototyped a course that allowed traditional students to ditch their familiar university surroundings for a few hours each week to learn in a prison setting alongside incarcerated students. The resulting Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program spread globally, reaching The Claremont Colleges in 2018. This fall, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Leadership Professor Werner Zorman taught Interpersonal Dynamics for the first time at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco. Click here for more.
January 16, 2025
Students at East Carolina University and Greene Correctional Institution took a class together this fall that not only taught them about the criminal justice system, but also more about each other. Click here for more.
January 8, 2025
Shianne is an "outside" student. She was enrolled in the fall 2024 Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, which is offered by the University of North Texas. She traveled to Bridgeport weekly for a night class at Bridgeport Correctional Center with other "outside" UNT students. Click here for more.
December 16, 2024
Eighteen students, 10 from Penn State Brandywine and eight incarcerated at a nearby county jail, overcame their apprehensions, challenged their ideas about the criminal justice system, and studied public speaking during a semester-long course offered through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Click here for more.
December 12, 2024
Duquesne University Inside-Out students spent a semester using Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” as a means to discuss justice and “squash the beef.” Click here for more.
September, 2024
To gather data, I used qualitative research methods—interviews, focus groups, and surveys. The findings revealed a strengthened sense of identity, purpose, and confidence that emerged as the coaches came to recognize the relevance and significance of their experiences as system-impacted students. Click here for more.
August 28, 2024
Inside-Out alumnus Michael Griggs’ story is one of adversity and triumph. Formerly incarcerated, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and now guides other formerly incarcerated students on their academic journeys. Michael has worked as a training coach with Inside-Out since 2021. Click here for more.
August 6, 2024
Muhlenberg's Inside-Out initiative has been awarded approximately $1 million over five years to expand and diversify the College’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, an ongoing collaboration between Muhlenberg College and the Lehigh County Department of Corrections. It will also fund cooperative initiatives aimed at enhancing workforce preparedness for reentry. Click here for more.
June 4, 2024
Felix Rosado joins the Chestnut Hill College community as an inspiring and unconventional adjunct professor. Just two years ago he was serving a sentence of death by incarceration (more commonly known as life without parole), from which he was freed via governor clemency after 27 years. Rosado said that while incarcerated, he rediscovered his Catholic faith, was introduced to the concept of restorative justice, and sought to make amends for his crime by educating and serving others. Click here for more.
June 2, 2024
Throughout the semester, the group of students focused on three topics in criminal justice: accountability—understanding the impact of one’s actions and the steps to follow to heal and move forward; desistance—what is needed to break from the cycle of criminality and achieve a stable environment; and prisons and punishment—reflecting on prison statistics, realities, and biases in the United States. Click here for more.
April 22, 2024
All six members of the Pitzer College community who gathered to speak at Benson Auditorium agreed on one thing: The best classes they’ve taken weren’t at any of the Claremont Colleges, but in prison. Click here for more.
March 13, 2024
One day a week, eight University of Cincinnati students travel to the institution as part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Incorporated by CECH criminal justice professor J.Z. (Juwan) Bennett, the class provides a space for eight outside students and eight inside students to discuss criminal justice topics such as sentencing, parole, life after prison, and recidivism in a classroom setting. Click here for more.
February 2024
In February of 2024, Inside-Out Instructors Dr. Fairleigh Gilmour, Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Gender Studies at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Dr. Ashley M. Appleby, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Endicott College, located in Massachusetts in the United States, visited Durham University's Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program... Click here for more.
September 29, 2023
Led by Associate Professor Haley Zettler, the University of North Texas' Inside-Out class provides a distinctive learning opportunity where students work together to learn about the criminal justice system – and each other. Click here for more.
(1/11/2023) University of Illinois Chicago
“UIC Law Students Seek to End Mass Incarceration Through Education with Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program”
(9/27/2022) Lewis & Clark
“From the Inside-Out: 5 Questions for Molly Robinson”
(5/5/2022) Arizona PBS
“Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program”
(4/27/2022) Pitzer College
“Pitzer Senior Kenneth Butler ’22 Earns Fulbright Fellowship to Uganda after Serving 15 Years in Prison”
(3/31/2022) University of West Florida
“UWF bringing students to prison to study social justice issues”
(3/11/2022) Arizona State University (ASU News)
“Students inside, outside correctional units attend same 'Inside-Out' class”
(2/2/2022) University of Redlands (News Wise)
“Crossing the New Jim Crow Color Line: Confronting Race in Community Service Learning Behind Bars”
(1/2022) The Inside-Out Center YouTube
“A Celebration of Voices: Inspiring Stories From the Inside-Out”
(9/21/2021) University of North Texas
“UNT to begin offering educational opportunities in correctional facilities as part of international program”
(7/5/2021) Vancouver Island University
“Catching up with this year’s recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal”
(5/13/2021) Pitzer College
“Pitzer College Celebrates its First Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA Graduating Seniors”
(4/2021) University of Pittsburgh (Pitt Magazine)
“Inside-Out”
(1/2021) Duquesne University (Daily Hampshire Gazette)
“Columnist Razvan Sibii: When officers, incarcerated study together”
(6/27/2019) Yale Law School Today (New Haven)
“Studying Criminal Justice from the Inside Out”
(5/2/2019) Inside Time (U.K.)
“Breaking Down Walls”
(3/21/2019) VIU News (British Columbia)
“Program that Brings Inmates and University Students Together Expanding”
(3/31/2017) Next City (U.S.)
"After 36 Years in Prison, This Philadelphian Has a Model for Criminal Justice Reform"
(Fall 2016) Lumina Foundation (Philadelphia)
“Innovative Program Turns Prisoners Into Classroom Peers”
(1/30/2016) BBC News (U.K.)
“Durham University's Inside-Out scheme sees students study with prisoners”
(1/24/2016) Independent (U.K.)
“Prisoners study alongside Durham University undergraduates in unique criminology course”
(9/14/2015) NPR – All Things Considered (U.S.)
“Inside-Out: Where Campus Life Meets Prison Life”
(1/29/2015) VICE MEDIA LLC
“The Exchange Program That Puts College Kids in Classrooms with Prisoners”
(Spring 2014) Temple Now (Philadelphia)
“Education from the Inside Out”
(3/4/2014) Radio Times (NPR – Philadelphia)
“The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program”
(3/3/2014) Newsworks (NPR – Philadelphia)
“Temple class inside prison lets undergrads and inmates learn from each other”
Click here for more articles published from 2021 to 2023.
Articles have also appeared in the following publications, among many others:
- Life Matters: Australia Broadcasting Corp.
- The Toronto Star (Canada)
- The Copenhagen Post (Denmark)
- The Journal (U.K.)
- Arizona Correctional Educators (Arizona)
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Arkansas)
- Rome News-Tribune (Georgia)
- The Indianapolis Star (Indiana)
- WISH TV (Indiana)
- Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas)
- Associated Press, The Kansan (Kansas)
- KY Forward (Kentucky)
- The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
- The Providence Journal (Massachusetts)
- The Detroit Free Press (Michigan)
- The Michigan Journal (Michigan)
- St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
- Owatonna People’s Press (Minnesota)
- The Star-Ledger (New Jersey)
- Corrections Today (NY)
- Cincinnati Magazine (Ohio)
- The Athens News (Ohio)
- The Eugene Register Guard (Oregon)
- Bend Weekly (Oregon)
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia)
- Scranton Times Tribune (PA)
- The Tennessean (Tennessee)
- Tennessee Bar Association Today (Tennessee)
- HBCU Digest (Virginia)
- CEA-W Newsletter (Wisconsin)
“Part of my personal philosophy has always been that in order to be a complete and fully realized person, you have to see and experience everything possible and that I could never completely understand myself without seeking to understand others. …A few months ago… I discovered The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program® and decided that this was exactly the type of unique experience that I always sought after and I was anxious to become a part of it. I didn’t know then how profoundly this experience would affect me.”
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