The Inside-Out Center is the international administrative office of The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program® and is located on the main campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Inside-Out Center:
- Serves as the focal point for maintaining, growing, and disseminating the program’s mission, vision, values, and methodology.
- Provides the administrative nucleus for the program’s activities.
- Designs and runs The International Inside-Out Instructor Training Institute.
- Trains Think Tanks, composed of inside and outside alumni, to co-facilitate the Training Institute.
- Collects data from the network to support existing programming and strategically expand it.
- Provides support for trained faculty, serves as a resource, information clearinghouse and networking source for stakeholders.
- Maintains the Inside-Out website and online portal for trained instructor resources.
- Creates training manuals for replicating the program.
- Handles all national and international media coverage.
The Center is headed by the Founder and Executive Director, Lori Pompa, a faculty member of the Criminal Justice Department in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. The Inside-Out Center is guided by a Leadership Team composed of trained instructors in our network and they comprise two advisory bodies: the Executive Committee and the Evaluation and Research Committee.
“I didn’t expect to learn so much. I didn’t expect to grow and change as a result of the process….As I reflect on the power of this course, I am awestruck and humbled...and certain that I do not want it to end here.”
(Outside Student)
“[This class] has acted as the catalyst in my passion for life and human rights, and was the pivotal point where I realigned my own path. This program has brought me to a new understanding of life, not just in prison, but in my own life. I have acquired the concrete knowledge of the true inter-workings of the system, and at the same time come to realize my own captors in life. I have heard the stories, felt the smiles, and seen the tears of women who have been to hell and back and with them I have found a voice.”
(Outside Student)
