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College Class Inside Prison Aims To Brings Students Together
By indianapublicmedia.org- Peter Balonon-Rosen
Published: 05/17/2016

INDIANAPOLIS — To get to the classroom inside Indianapolis Re-entry Educational Facility, IREF, you go through a metal detector, a set of locked doors and across a long, open yard.

Behind another set of doors, class is in session.

Sitting in a circle, students discuss their designs of an ideal facility that helps incarcerated people transition back into society. They’re working on their final project for this class, held behind bars, on the criminal justice system.

The class is part of the international Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a program that brings college students and incarcerated people together with one goal: learning.

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