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The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an educational program with an innovative pedagogical approach tailored to facilitate dialogue across difference. It originated by Lori Pompa at Temple University as a means of bringing together campus-based students with incarcerated students for a semester-long course held in a prison, jail or other correctional setting. 

While those core Inside-Out Prison Exchange courses have been replicated across the United States and in multiple countries since its inception in 1997, the program has expanded into a variety of other forms of educational and community-based programming. It also has grown into an international network of trained faculty, students, alumni, think tanks, higher education and correctional administrators, and other stakeholders actively engaged with, and deeply committed to, social justice issues. 

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program ���Ҵ�ý Pathway to BA is the first of its kind.

In 2020, ���Ҵ�ý launched its Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA program, becoming the first undergraduate institution in the U.S. to transform the Inside-Out curriculum into a program that leads to a BA degree for incarcerated learners. Students work toward earning degrees in organizational studies, an interdisciplinary course of study focusing on administrative, economic, political, psychological, and sociological factors.

As of 2026, ���Ҵ�ý's Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA program has graduated 5 cohorts of students.

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The JEC establishes and supports community partnerships and projects focused on criminal justice education and policy, building bridges between academic institutions, carceral facilities, and local communities. 

• ���Ҵ�ý launches prison education programs at Prototypes Women's Center, Crossroads transitional housing & Camp A-P juvenile detention facility (non-credit bearing for inside participants)

• ���Ҵ�ý’s community partners, Prison Education Project, invite ���Ҵ�ý students as tutors and mentors into CRC (CA Rehabilitation Center, men's prison in Norco)
• ���Ҵ�ý's first course offered inside CRC (IGLAS offers first inside-only, Soccer for Social Change, as pilot endeavor)

• ���Ҵ�ý's first Inside-out Prison Education classes are taught at CRC with inside and out students (non-credit bearing program out of IGLAS)
• CASA ���Ҵ�ý partners with Starting Over, Inc for participatory action research on criminal justice and re-entry policy, housing, and rights with formerly incarcerated individuals through semester-long student research fellowships

• Inside-out moves under umbrella to CEC, and increases course offerings with additional ���Ҵ�ý professors and secures credit for inside students
• ���Ҵ�ý hosts Inside-Out faculty training for faculty across the 5Cs and the region

• Inside-Out program evolves into 5C Justice Education Initiatives under the umbrella of the Office for Consortial Academic Collaboration
• Justice Education Initiatives returns to ���Ҵ�ý but continues working as a 5C program
• ���Ҵ�ý hosts Inside-Out faculty training for faculty across the 5Cs and the region

• Inside-Out Pathway-to-BA is launched, the first of its kind in the country/world.

• CRC announces closure; (final) 5th BA cohort graduates May 19
• JEC launches new inside-out partnerships to offer a new slate of four courses with California Institution for Women (CIW) and La Entrada de Los Angeles, a FCRP community custody transitional housing facility of Amity Foundation and the CDCR.

• Over 100 Inside-Out classes have been offered to nearly 2000 student enrollments across the colleges and myriad disciplines, including: Organizational Studies, History, Psychology, Political Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, Linguistics, Math, Chemistry, Dance, Africana Studies, Biology, Art and more.