In case you missed it...Spring media coverage links!

OPEEP was featured in several stories from local and national news outlets this past spring! More details and links below:

• Phoebe Helms with The Lantern published an article covering the profound emotional impact of Dr. Terrance Hinton’s Spring 2024 OPEEP class at London Correctional. The story includes multiple videos of student testimonies from inside the classroom!
  • “Deeply emotional, incredibly profound: The impact of Ohio State’s prison co-education program” (The Lantern)
     
• Lexi Lonas with The Hill published an article about OPEEP, Liberation At the Margins (LAM) Collective (OPEEP learning community at the Ohio Reformatory for Women), recent expansion of higher education in prison programs and obstacles to Pell grants for incarcerated learners.
  • “Prison education programs ready to expand, but new Pell Grants slow to arrive” (The Hill)
     
• Tonisha Johnson with Spectrum News 1 Columbus published a two-part story after visiting LAM Collective (Liberation At the Margins), OPEEP’s learning community at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, and interviewing a campus student from Dr. Tiyi Morris' Spring 2024 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements class at Southeastern Correctional Institution.
  • “OSU works to expand prison education” (Spectrum News 1) 
  • “College students expand their academic experience with the incarcerated” (Spectrum News 1)
     
• Kerry Charles with NBC4 ran several live news segments covering Dr. Terrance Hinton’s class at London Correctional and the unique opportunities OPEEP classes offer both campus-based and incarcerated students.
  • Ohio State University offers ‘Corrections’ course inside prison (NBC4)