Recent OPEEP News Stories

6 incarcerated students and 5 campus-based students look to the front of the room while listening to reflections from their peers on the final day of Dr. Terrance Hinton's Corrections class held at London Correctional Institution in Spring 2024.

Incarcerated student Malik smiles while holding a reflection paper he wrote in Dr. Terrance Hinton's Spring 2024 Corrections class held at London Correctional Institution.

Incarcerated student Justin smiles while reading one of his peer's reflection essays and enjoying the celebratory activities on the final day of Dr. Terrance Hinton's Corrections class held at London Correctional Institution in Spring 2024.

OPEEP is on NBC slide with text “We’re all humans and we all have one heart, one body, one mind, one sound, and we should just respect that,”

OPEEP was recently featured in several stories from local and national news outlets! Find 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)