Socrates would be pleased: With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
aeon article - We are several weeks into the semester-long course, innocuously titled ‘Introduction to Philosophy’. The class, held each Friday morning for three hours at a nearby women’s correctional facility, is part of the US national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. There are 20 students on the course. Half are ‘Outside’ students, that is, mostly 19- to 20-year-old residential students at the small liberal arts college where I teach. The other half are ‘Inside’ students with a much broader range of age, background and life experience.
