Spotlight! Symposium: Elaine MacDougall
Exploring the Inside-Out Baltimore Prison Exchange Program
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 · 12 - 1 PM
Professor Elaine MacDougall will be featured in the next Spotlight! Symposium on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 from 12 to 1 PM online.
Her talk will explore the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program for
Baltimore Area College Students. Read a preview of her talk below:
"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."
