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/instructors

schools and instructors

School	Instructors
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	Mitra Diditi
Bryn Mawr	Jody Cohen [8] Barb Toews
Bucknell University	Carol Wayne-White [9]
Cabrini College	Jeff Gingerich [10]
California State University-Chico	James Sutton [11]
Carnegie Mellon University	Laurel Rose [12]
Chestnut Hill College	Paul Eisenhauer [13]
Cornell University	Mary Katzenstein [14]
City University of New York / John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Dartmouth College
Vivian Cullen
Duquesne University	Norm Conti[15]
East Central University
Emerson College
Emory College Eastern Michigan University Fayettville State University Fitchburg State College Garrett College George Washington University Gettysburg College Goucher College Haverford College Janice Lion 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 Murray State University Kate King Naropa University Candace Walworth Nazareth College of Rochester Ed Wiltse New York University Emmanullea Turenne Niagra University Northern Arizona Uiniversity Cyndi Banks North Carolina State University R.V.Rikard Norwalk Community College Ohio University Ohio State University Jim Sutton Oregon State University Park University Penn State University Tom Bernard 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 Sterling College Megan Hammond Stonehill College Syracuse University Temple University The College of Wooster The New SchoolElla Turenne [16][17] Trinity UniversityBeate Girsch [18] University of Arkansas at Little RockCharles Chastain [19] University of California Irvine Phil Goodman, Rita Shaw University of California Santa BarbaraNikki Jones [20] University of Delaware Lana Harrison [21], Dan O'Connell [22] University of Massachusetts Boston [23] University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Susan Krumholz [24] University of Michigan Dearborn Lora Lempert [25] University of Oregon Steve Shankman [26] [27], Ellen Scott [28] University of Pennsylvania Laura Gorgol, Jeffrey Draine [29], Kathleen Brown [30], Kerry Dunn [31], Marie Gottschalk [32][33][34], Dawn Durain [35] University of San Francisco, University of St. Thomas Susan Smith-Cunnien [36] University of Wisconsin-Madison Ray Hsu [37] Vassar College Michelle Michaelman, Eileen Leonard Virginia Union University Millie Carvalho [38] West Virginia University Jim Nolan [39] Western Kentucky University Holli Drumond [40] Widener University Sidney Jacobs, Barbara Ryan, Kit Healey, [41] Wilkes University Ebonie Stinger William Paterson University Gennifer Furst [42] Xavier University Christine Shimrock [43] References