In a new video for Strong Returns, School of Criminal Justice Assistant Professor Andrea Cantora talks about what it’s like to teach UB students alongside incarcerated men and women at the Jessup Correctional Institute through the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Inside-Out, an initiative of Temple University’s Inside-Out Center, brings ‘outside’ (undergraduate) students together with ‘inside’ (incarcerated) students to study as peers. According to the Inside-Out website, the program provides college students with an opportunity to go behind prison walls to reconsider what they have come to know about crime and justice, and gives men and women inside prison the chance to place their life experiences into a larger context.

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Learn more about Asst. Prof. Cantora.