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| Inside-Out: Where Campus Life Meets Prison Life |
| By ksmu.org |
| Published: 09/15/2015 |
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To get to this college classroom, you have to walk past the barbed wire, between a line of armed guards, and through the heavy metal bars. Only then do you arrive at the circle of chairs. When class starts, half the chairs are filled with so-called "inside students," men and women serving time behind bars. The other half of the seats are occupied by "outside students" — basically, traditional college students. This coming year, more than 100 universities and colleges around the world will offer Inside-Out classes. All of these classes are taught inside prison walls, but there's one cavernous auditorium that's something of a hub for the program. It's dotted with industrial fans and deep inside SCI Graterford Prison, about an hour's drive from Philadelphia. Read More. |
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