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after a lengthy conversation with the dude handing out those nifty contexts guitar picks, i’ll break my blog silence by offering a quick update on how i spent my spring\/summer non-vacation.\u00a0 the basic overview is represented in the title to this post, which i realize sounds something like a bad b-movie.<\/p>\n
prisons<\/strong>: i brought the inside-out program<\/a> to another prison in oregon, teaching the first-ever class in the oregon state correctional institution<\/a> this spring.\u00a0 the class went well and the guys in OSCI are eagerly awaiting the next offering.\u00a0 for the first six weeks of summer, i taught my seventh inside-out class in the oregon state penitentiary.\u00a0 as part of the summer class, the students created their own blog<\/a>, which they hope will build and grow as new classes are offered and new students add their own perspectives.<\/p>\n girls<\/strong>: from january through june, i taught a class once\u00a0 a week for six months in our state’s juvenile correctional facility for young women.\u00a0 i brought in about eight female OSU students each quarter and we held informal classes and discussions with six incarcerated young women.\u00a0 one of their main goals\/projects was to put on a women’s symposium for the entire institution.\u00a0 my group of girls\/young women planned and ran the events and workshops, raised money to bring in a pizza lunch, created a highly entertaining video of the OSU campus and experience, and brought in oregon state university’s first lady as our keynote speaker.\u00a0 it was a wonderful event.\u00a0 in addition, my spring-term delinquency class did a number of service-learning projects at the facility, including book clubs, art projects, and movie screening\/discussions.\u00a0 some of those projects, with kids in the community, were highlighted by our juvenile probation and parole department<\/a>.<\/p>\n