Inside-Out Program

Inside-Out is an international educational model that promotes social change. By bringing outsiders inside prison walls, facilitating dialogue and education across profound social differences, the program transforms the people involved. Participants leave the experience determined to bend the arc toward justice.

Inside-Out courses at Delaware Law School are an opportunity for a group of law students and a group of students who are incarcerated to exchange ideas and perceptions about crime, justice, the criminal system, and incarceration. The classroom is inside a local correctional facility within 15 miles of the law school. Inside-Out is offered every spring at by Associate Professor Romie Griesmer.

Here’s what students have said about their experience:

“the most human experience I have ever had” DLS Student Spring 2025

Paige Benedetto, DLS 2020, Assistant Public Defender Delaware County, Media, PA

Bethany (Wigfield) Mulhern, DLS 2016, Miller Cushing Holladay, Charlotte, NC

Law Review Article: Romie Griesmer, Inside-Out: Bringing Law Students Face-to-Face With Injustice, 21 U. Md. L.J. Race Relig. Gender & Class 23 (2021).