OREGON - Inside-Out Prison Exchange (Salem,University of Oregon)

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program (Salem, University of Oregon)
Steven Shankman, Professor of English and Classics

Population Served: People who are incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary

Program Description: Since 2007, University of Oregon (UO) Professor Steven Shankman has taught three Inside-Out Classes through the Clark Honors College (CHC) at the Oregon State Penitentiary. Courses are taught in an integrated classroom with outside students (from the Honors College) and inside students (who are incarcerated at Oregon State Penitentiary). Students study course materials together, and participate in dialogue about the texts and the larger questions of social justice and social inequalities. Since then, more than sixty CHC students have participated in Inside-Out classes at the Oregon State Penitentiary.