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This spring, 22 students—both incarcerated learners and those living on the outside—enrolled in a new course offered by Dr. Alia Dietsch at Southeastern Correctional Institute: Disabled…

Thanks to the generous support of the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation, OPEEP had strong representation at the 16th annual convening of the National Conference on Higher Education in Prison (NCHEP),…

Hello OPEEP students, faculty, and learning community members,

We write to issue a call for submissions for our first magazine (title TBD)! The magazine will be published…

Imagining Abolition: Blood, Sweat, and Tears Too features artwork by members of the Returning Artists Guild (RAG), a group of artists who have been directly impacted by incarceration. The…

Imagining Abolition: State Blues is open now through March 13, 2026, in the Storyteller's Gallery is located on the second floor of Louella Hodges Reese Hall on the OSU Newark campus.

The…

Congratulations to OPEEP Co-Director Dr. Mary Thomas on being selected to serve as Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) Faculty Fellow!

The Office of Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow program…

Assistant Professor of Dance Irvin Gonzalez has been passionate about advocacy for as long as he can remember.

“Growing up, I would translate for my parents,” said Gonzalez, whose parents…

OPEEP was selected by the Office of Outreach & Engagement as one of Ohio State’s top three 2025 Programs of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship. This award recognizes programs who are making…

On March 24th, OPEEP and the FREE Center had the honor of hosting prominent scholar and activist Loretta Ross, one of the founding members of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice…