Spotlight! Symposium: Elaine MacDougall
Exploring the Inside-Out Baltimore Prison Exchange Program
Location
Online
Spotlight! Symposium: Elaine MacDougall – Online Event
Date & Time
October 26, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Exploring the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program for Baltimore Area College Students, Inside and Out
During June of 2022, I took part in Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Training, which is a “National pedagogical project offering semester-long, college-level classes behind bars to groups of students” (Davis, 2011, p. 204). From its original model as a program for criminal justice majors, the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program has evolved to include courses across many disciplines, including creative writing and literature courses. This program gives incarcerated students a connection to the outside world and an opportunity to have a voice in a system which historically has not listened. This talk will focus on things I learned from the training as I work towards designing my own curriculum for an empowering writing program and/or college level course geared towards the needs of incarcerated women.
Link to recording: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/ldr.php?RCID=9fb40f2fcedf96e61c13b8f89901d359
