Inside-Out creates a dynamic partnership between institutions of higher learning and correctional systems in order to deepen the conversation about and transform our approaches to understanding crime, justice, freedom, inequality, and other issues of social concern.

All of the students went through the same process - they had to apply, fill out an application, write an essay, give references, and go through an interview.

Inside or outside KPU made it so that we were all students. AND through the help of KPU and Telus all of the students got credit for the course

We read four books on the topic of othering

- As long as the rivers flow
- The Glass Castle
- Oddly Normal
- Gang leader for a day

As long as the rivers flow - This book covers the issue of othering is regards to Aboriginal people in Canada. It's a fictional book that walks you through the life of a girl as she goes through residential school and the aftermath of that traumatic experience.

The glass castle is a memoir. It follows a family as they struggle with poverty

Oddly Normal is a memoir about a New York times journalist as they deal with the challenges of raising a child that is gay

This is about a Graduate Sociology student that ends up following around a gang in the Chicago projects in order to learn about poverty

- You get to class 5 mins before it starts
- You do just enough work to get by
- You might talk to one or two people in the class tops
- You may get to know the prof, but that's only if you're a keener (which I am) but even then it's still tricky
- It doesn't really matter if you do the reccommended readings
- there's one, maybe two students that ever talk during class

There were a few unique challenges that we were faced with

- discrimination from the guards
- planning group projects without the internet