Inside-Out: Exploring Crime & Justice

Catalog description

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an opportunity for a small group of students from La Salle University ("outside students") and a group of people currently incarcerated ("inside students") to exchange ideas and perceptions about crime and justice, corrections, and imprisonment. It is a chance for all participants to gain a deeper understanding of the criminal justice system through the marriage of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The course is structured around several key questions: What are prisons for? Why do people commit crime? What does the criminal legal system do well and what does in not do well? Whate are the needs of victims? What are some of the myths and realities of prison life? What are the unintended consequences of mass incarceration? What happens if we abolish prisons?