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<\/a><\/p>\nEvery Friday at 8 a.m., 11 University of West Florida students show up for class at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution. Once inside, they are joined by their classmates: 13 incarcerated individuals.<\/p>\n
The students are the first cohort enrolled in the Spring 2022 Inside-Out Exchange course led by Jennifer Brinkley, J.D., assistant professor of legal studies, and Dr. Nicole Niebuhr, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice. The course, Contemporary Social Justice Issues, addresses the creation of social justice policy and its impacts on society.<\/p>\n
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program\u00ae is an international initiative that encourages dialogue and education among incarcerated individuals and university students. UWF currently offers the first and only course in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrisons are often looking for educational course offerings and, in my experience, incarcerated individuals are very eager to participate in an intellectual pursuit,\u201d Brinkley said. \u201cThis type of collaboration brings so much joy to everyone involved, and it\u2019s important for communities to invest in programs that help with re-entry, as incarcerated individuals will be joining our communities again at the end of their sentence. I am proud that UWF has been willing to step in and provide educational programming for incarcerated individuals, and to allow UWF students to be a part of this important endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brinkley and Niebuhr underwent a rigorous, 40-hour training course in early 2021 to gain eligibility for instructing an Inside-Out course, and joined forces to co-teach the first offering in the Spring 2022 semester.<\/p>\n
Kayla Reid, a criminal justice graduate student, said she joined the course to participate in the unique opportunity to hear new perspectives within the criminal justice system and to expand her classroom learning through conversations with those who have lived the experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing the perspectives of individuals who are currently incarcerated is important,\u201d Reid said. \u201cI\u2019m appreciating the discussions, and I believe the class is a good human experience. They come into class through one door, we come in another, but we all get to sit as students together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah Goldberg, junior legal studies major, said the course provided an irresistible opportunity to pursue her interest in the prison system and prison reform topics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most impactful part of the course so far has been the dismantling of my implicit bias,\u201d she said. \u201cIncarcerated people have been so \u2018othered\u2019 by society that we are taught to view them as inferior in every sense of the word. Having meaningful, important, eye-opening conversations with the inside-out students fosters a sense of understanding and connection you wouldn\u2019t expect to have with someone whose life looks so different from your own. It\u2019s truly been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
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