The idea for the Inside-Out program came from a visit by Temple University professor Lori Pompa and a group of undergraduate to the Pennsylvania state correctional facility in Dallas, PA, in 1995.
A profile of the Cambridge scheme in the Guardian in 2016 that did not acknowledge that it drew upon methodology pioneered by Inside-Out led to a letter to the editor from academics at Durham, Teesside, Kent and other UK universities saying: "We welcome the contribution that any UK colleagues make in developing prison education opportunities here but urge them to acknowledge Inside-Out and the role it has played in shaping their project if drawing so heavily upon it."
The original article was amended after publication to acknowledge that the Inside-Out program at Durham had pioneered such work in the UK, prior to the Cambridge scheme.
[4][5][6][7] In 2016, the University of Westminster's convict criminology group started a program with students studying alongside inmates at Pentonville Prison based on the Inside-Out model.
Through college classes and community exchanges, the program seeks to deepen the conversation about and transform our approaches to understanding crime, justice, freedom, inequality, and other issues of social concern.