A college course meets inside a minimum-security prison through the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, with half the seats for incarcerated students and half for students from outside. The class begins with a quote from Michel Foucault asking why prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, and hospitals. The course focuses on the history of crime and punishment in the United States and aims to denaturalize what people take for granted. A documentary, Classroom 4, follows the class and is streamed on PBS. The program is presented as a way to connect subjective lived experience with academic knowledge, while outside students practice analytical thinking alongside incarcerated students’ perspectives.
"It's the purest demonstration of what it means to bring together subjective lived experience and academic knowledge. Outside students from a liberal arts college are practiced in abstract analytical t"
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