Prison Teaching - Prison Initiatives

The Brown History Education Prison Project is a program in which faculty from the History Department co-teach broadly themed college-level history classes to men incarcerated in the medium security facility of Rhode Island’s Adult Correctional Institute (ACI). These courses are seminar style and issue driven; past themes include “War and Empire” and “State, God and Citizen.. The program, which Professor Amy Remensnyder founded in 2012, has taught more than 70 men so far. It evolved from a program called Brown Education Link Lecture Series (or BELLS), founded by undergraduate Jonathan Coleman in 2008. Professor Remensnyder has twice also taught a parallel class simultaneously at Brown and in the ACI called "Locked Up."