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 by Associate Professor Romie Griesmer.

Here’s what students have said about their experience:

2020 DLS student Inside-Out Project,
Paige Benedetto, Assistant Public Defender Delaware County, Media, PA

2016 DLS student on the Inside-Out Experience,
Bethany (Wigfield) Mulhern, 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).