Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program (Inside-Out) is a national program based in Philadelphia at Temple University. Inside-Out was established by Lori Pompa in 1997 to bring college students and incarcerated men and women together to explore and learn about issues of crime and justice from behind prison walls. The program was founded on the simple hypothesis that incarcerated men and women and college students might mutually benefit from from studying together as peers.

The program provides individuals on both sides of the prison walls the unique opportunity to engage in a collaborative, dialogic examination of issues of social significance through the particular lens that is the "prism of prison." Through college classes and community exchanges, the program seeks to deepen the conversation about and transform our approaches to understanding crime, justice, freedom, inequality, and other issues of social concern. Inside-Out creates a paradigm shift for participants, encouraging transformation and change in individuals and, in so doing, serves as an engine for social change. Since its inception, students of Inside-Out both inside and outside have time and again claimed that the experience transformed the ways they viewed themselves and the world.

Courses taught by School Year

History

By the end of the 2007-2008 school year there have been over 140 courses taught in 20 states at 37 schools by 56 instructors.

Participating Schools

The number of trained Inside-Out instructors varies at the participating schools.

• American Baptist College

Janet Wolf[1]

• Amherst College

Kristen Bumiller [2] Martha Saxton [3] Paula Zamperini [4]

• Antioch University McGregor

Stephanie Knight

• Arcadia University

Joe Michaels [5]

• Berry College

Sarah Allred [6]

• Black Hills State University

Mary Rogers [7]

• Brookdale Community College

• Bryn Mawr

Jody Cohen [8] Barb Toews

• Bucknell University

Carol Wayne-White [9]

• Cabrini College

Jeff Gingerich [10]

• California State University-Chico
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Cornell University
• City University of New York / John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Dartmouth College
• Duquesne University
• East Central University
• Eastern Michigan University
• Fayettville State University
• Fitchburg State College
• Garrett College
• Goucher College
• Haverford College
• Indiana University Bloomington
• Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Keystone College
• Lafayette College
• Lakeland College
• Marlboro College
• Metropolitan State University
• Middlesex County College
• Monmouth University
• Mount Holyoke College
• Naropa University
• Nazareth College of Rochester
• Niagra University
• North Carolina State University
• Norwalk Community College
• Ohio University
• Oregon State University
• Park University
• Portland State University
• Rend Lake College
• Riverland Community College
• Rowan University
• Rutgers University Newark
• Saint Ambrose University
• Saint Joseph's University
• Saint Xavier University
• Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
• Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
• St. John's University (New York)
• Stanford University
• State University of New York at Fredonia
• State University of New York at Oswego
• Syracuse University
• Temple University
• The College of Wooster
• The New School
• Trinity University
• University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• University of California Irvine
• University of California Santa Barbara
• University of Delaware
• University of Massachusetts Boston
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• University of Michigan Dearborn
• University of Oregon
• University of Pennsylvania

Laura Gorgol

• University of San Francisco
• University of St. Thomas
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Vassar College
• Virginia Union University

Millie Carvalho [11]

• West Virginia University
• Western Kentucky University
• Widener University
• William Paterson University
• Xavier University