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Odyssey Beyond Bars

Inside-Out program changing perspectives at Taycheedah women’s prison

Posted on October 27, 2021

“This experience has enabled me to look outside the box that I’ve kept myself securely in for so long. I am not just a number or a lost cause like society has labeled me. I …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Odyssey Beyond Bars returns in-person at Oakhill

Posted on October 26, 2021

“You’re only remembered by what you did in your time on earth, and I want to be remembered as a valiant man that despite his mistakes and hardships took a horrific situation and turned it …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Director’s letter

Posted on October 25, 2021

We enter fall and the holidays with keen excitement, thankful to be back to in-person teaching and meeting classrooms full of new students. Some programs suspended during the pandemic are resuming, like UW–Parkside’s Shakespeare Prison …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Odyssey Beyond Bars alum advocating for better futures

Posted on July 15, 2021

“What English 100 did for me, I want to do for others. I blossomed in that class. I want others to experience that.” —Dominee Meek, Odyssey Beyond Bars alum (fall 2019) Dominee was in the …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Multicultural literature course hosts family, friends for online graduation

Posted on July 15, 2021

“Reading and reflecting on writings at this magnitude has allowed us to respond and be heard, to be a part of the community […] and to be more than just numbers in a system or …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Director’s letter

Posted on July 15, 2021

We wind down the 2020-21 academic year proud of our students and what we have accomplished in the face of adversity. When the pandemic interrupted our face-to-face instruction, Odyssey Beyond Bars (OBB) rose to the occasion, …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged CHEP, Odyssey Beyond Bars

Odyssey Beyond Bars offers new multicultural literature course at Oakhill

Posted on April 15, 2021

“We often search for scars which lay bare on the outside, never considering the more hurtful scars present on the inside. Having served nearly 25 years of incarceration, I know firsthand that the hidden scars …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged Multicultural literature course, Odyssey Beyond Bars

New educational program supports parent-child connections during incarceration

Posted on April 15, 2021

 “Parenting doesn’t come with a handbook. And a lot of times our parents only gave us what their parents gave them, and so this is an opportunity for us to learn things that we didn’t …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged Odyssey Beyond Bars, Parenting Inside Out

Despite COVID setback, Odyssey Beyond Bars storytellers return to share their stories

Posted on April 15, 2021

“I never thought I’d ever be a writer. I wasn’t even good at writing letters. But then I took English 100, and wow, it really helped my communication and writing. I have overcome my fear …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged Odyssey Beyond Bars

April UW CHEP E-Newsletter intro

Posted on April 15, 2021

“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” —Victor Hugo Spring 2021 is a time of triumph and hope for UW’s students in prison. After enduring outbreaks of COVID-19, long periods of lockdown and …

Posted in Odyssey UpdatesTagged Covid-19, Odyssey Beyond Bars
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