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	State
American Baptist College	Janet Wolf[1]	TN
Amherst College	Kristen Bumiller [2] Martha Saxton [3] Paula Zamperini [4]	MA
Antioch University McGregor	Stephanie Knight	WA
Arcadia University	Joe Michaels [5]	PA
Berry College	Sarah Allred [6]	GA
Black Hills State University	Mary Rogers [7]	SD
Brookdale Community College	Mitra Diditi	NJ
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	Natalie Sokoloff [[15]] Olga Sanson	NY
Dartmouth College	Vivian Cullen
Duquesne University	Norm Conti[16]
East Central University	Jamie Burns
Emerson College	Cyndi Miller
Emory College	Kiesha Green
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 School	Ella Turenne [17][18]
Trinity University	Beate Girsch [19]
University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Charles Chastain [20]
University of California Irvine	Phil Goodman Rita Shaw
University of California Santa Barbara	Nikki Jones [21]
University of Delaware	Lana Harrison [22] Dan O'Connell [23]
University of Massachusetts Boston	John Tawa[24]
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth	Susan Krumholz [25]
University of Michigan Dearborn	Lora Lempert [26]
Steve Shankman [27] [28], Ellen Scott [29]
University of Pennsylvania	Laura Gorgol, Jeffrey Draine [30], Kathleen Brown [31], Kerry Dunn [32], Marie Gottschalk [33][34][35], Dawn Durain [36]
University of San Francisco,
University of St. Thomas	Susan Smith-Cunnien [37]
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Ray Hsu [38]
Vassar College	Michelle Michaelman Eileen Leonard
Virginia Union University	Millie Carvalho [39]
West Virginia University	Jim Nolan [40]
Western Kentucky University	Holli Drumond [41]
Widener University	Sidney Jacobs Barbara Ryan Kit Healey [42]
Wilkes University	Ebonie Stinger
William Paterson University	Gennifer Furst [43]
Xavier University	Christine Shimrock [44]