Posted on Friday, June 10, 2016
Every Tuesday morning during the spring semester, ¾¨Ó㴫ý students spent time outside of the traditional classroom visiting and learning alongside inmates.
Through the sociology and criminal justice studies programs, students enrolled in the Inside-Out course at the Trumbull Correctional Institution in Leavittsburg, Ohio.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý students, or, the “outsiders,” joined the incarcerated students, or, the “insiders,” to take the course “Sociology of Violence and Nonviolence.”
Inside-Out is an international program in which Dr. Kristenne Robison, associate professor of sociology and , received facilitator training. Robison has an inside co-facilitator, Darrell Jones.
Dr. Sherri Pataki, associate professor of , and Dr. Kristin Park, professor of , were guest lectures for the course. Pataki spoke about The Holocaust and Park spoke about Amish forgiveness.
For more information, contact Robison at robisokm@westminster.edu.
