UC Criminal Justice Students See the Realities of Incarceration Firsthand
March 13, 2024
One day a week, eight University of Cincinnati students travel to the institution as part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Incorporated by CECH criminal justice professor J.Z. (Juwan) Bennett, the class provides a space for eight outside students and eight inside students to discuss criminal justice topics such as sentencing, parole, life after prison, and recidivism in a classroom setting.
In their papers for a University of Cincinnati criminal justice program, students write with such elegant prose, insight and thoughtfulness that it is difficult to discern which papers belong to UC undergrads and which papers are written by their unconventional classmates – incarcerated individuals at the Lebanon Correctional Institution in Lebanon, Ohio.
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