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Clackamas students talk to Titus (far right) about his duties in the woodshop where he works with other MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility residents. The facility has partnered with a business
across ihe street that p ays the residents to produce pallets fo r general use. They also build various wood products that are eventually sent to the Army.
MACLAREN: Learning behind bars
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Stephan, a MacLaren resident,
has completed 82 college credits
at Lane Community College, not
including CJA-199 at Clackamas.
All o f his college coursework has
been completed while incarcer-
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange
Program works with institutions o f
higher learning and correctional
systems to deepen the conversation
about and transform approaches to
understanding crime, justice, free
dom, inequality, and other issues o f
social concern. Mbre information
ated. He plans to have an associate
about the program can be tbund at
ence is an opportunity for criminal
degree by the end of this term. His
goal is to enroll at Oregon State
University and obtain a degree in
human resources.
•‘My whole purpose in going
to school is to better my surround
ings that I came from; because it’s
[gang/drug life] just a cycle and I
don’t want to part of keeping that
cycle going. Someone’s got to stop
it,” Stephan said.
insideoutoregon.com
The spring schedule of class
es' describes CJA-199, Inside
Corrections, as bringing a group
o f students from GCC together
with a group o f residents of à cor
rectional facility to g ain a deeper
understanding o f the criminal jus
tice system through the marriage of
theoretical knowledge and practi
cal experience achieved by weekly
justice and corrections students -to
see their field from the inside.
Across the correctional cam
pus, the students gathered in the
facility’s educational buildings in
a classroom. Students discussed
the.tour o f the grounds and how it
made them feel.
“Is there anything you want to
talk about that stuck out?” Flippo
asked the class.
meetings at the facility. Students
.will explore ideas about crime and
justice, the criminal justice system,
corrections and incarceration.
The four credit class is held
at the correctional facility most
Wednesdays this spring from
1-4:50 pm . The learning' experi
Danna, a CCC student, replied,
“Hike all the different work oppor
tunities. I didn’t realize all the
different opportunities that they
[inmates] have.”
Although the inmates <t
MacLaren can take online classes,
CJA-199 gives them a chance to
Editors Note
Student sources in this
article are not fully named.
According to Ida Flippo,
instructor for CJA-199, the
'experience edtieatioiriiSiifflre tradi
rules o f th e Inside-O ut pro
tionally.
“The inside ’ students really
appreciated this opportunity
because it gave them more o f a
real college experience than just
communicating online with their
instructors or with their fellow stu
dents,’’ Flippo said.
To see student responses to
the classes. online go to www.
theclackamasprint.com.
gram require students and
student inmates to remain
semi-anonymous; only the
instructors know the full
names o f all o f the stu
dents. The Print was asked
to not report personal infor
mation about the inmates,
their crimes or sentences.
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