We will have two Inside-Out classes in Winter 2024, applications due Monday, November 13th. Submit your application via Google form here.
There is an optional informational session with the Prison Education Program coordinator and recent Inside-Out students in Room 282 in the Law School at 4pm on Wednesday, November 8th. Please come learn about the program, even if you aren’t able to take a winter term class!
Inside-Out classes take place inside a prison, with an equal number of campus-based students and incarcerated (“inside”) students. Classes are discussion based and have had an incredibly positive impact on both the outside and inside students. Because of the drive time to Salem and the process of entering and leaving the institution, the total time involved is 4pm – 10pm one day each week. The class itself goes from 6:00-8:30. Learn more about Inside-Out class offerings. The two winter term classes are:
GEOG 445 “Culture, Ethnicity, and Nationalism” with Professor Shaul Cohen on Mondays at the Oregon State Penitentiary
SOC 410 “Structural Inequality in the US: Schools, the labor market and the criminal justice system” with Professor Ellen Scott on Wednesdays at the Oregon State Correctional Institution
Many past participants have reported that these classes are some of the most interesting, engaging, and transformative they have taken.
Please email uoprisoned@uoregon.edu with any questions!