Community Justice & Engaged Pedagogy: Inside-Out Program Evaluation

Since 2018, the Inside-Out Program at Boston College has partnered with the Suffolk County House of Correction to offer courses that bring college students together with incarcerated men or women to study as peers behind prison walls. The core of the Inside-Out Program at Boston College is a semester-long academic course, meeting once a week, through which "outside" students (from BC's Chestnut Hill Campus) and the same number of "inside" students (incarcerated at the Suffolk County House of Correction) attend class together inside prison. The program evaluation aimed to understand students' reasons for participating in Inside-Out, how participation in the Inside-Out program impacts students, and the relationship between Inside-Out and principles of student formation in the Jesuit Tradition.

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