{"id":2,"date":"2018-12-13T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/critical-justice\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T19:04:49","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/justice-education\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"our-story\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid alignnone\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 40px auto; border-radius: 20px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 0px 54px 55px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12) 0px -12px 30px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12) 0px 4px 6px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17) 0px 12px 13px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.09) 0px -3px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/justice-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2024\/06\/Fourth-Cohort-Admit-Day.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1908\" height=\"1246\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story_header\">On the Shoulders of Giants<\/h1>\n<p>Launched in 2018, the Justice Education Initiative builds on longstanding, pioneering work in prison and justice education by The Claremont Colleges faculty, staff, and students. These pioneers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippscollege.edu\/academics\/faculty\/profile\/susan-castagnetto\">Susan Castagnetto<\/a> is director of the Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement and teaches philosophy and gender &amp; women\u2019s studies courses at Scripps and Pomona. In 2000, she organized a conference on women, prisons, and criminal justice that led to many other justice-related programs at Scripps and The Claremont Colleges. She organizes regular writing workshops for women at the California Institution for Women and for students at Claremont Colleges. As a 2008 fellow of the Women\u2019s Policy Institute, sponsored by the Women\u2019s Foundation of California, she worked with others to pass a state bill extending the amount of time that incarcerated parents have to meet requirements for reuniting with their children in foster care.<\/li>\n<li>Dipa Basu, Harris, and Barry Sanders are Pitzer College professors who founded a partnership with the juvenile probation facility Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige in La Verne, CA, in 2001. The same year, Professor Harris also founded a collegiate partnership with Prototypes, a women&#8217;s rehabilitation and recovery center, in Pomona, CA.<\/li>\n<li>Lori Pompa, a Temple University professor of criminal justice, founded the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in 1997. The organization has grown to include more than 100 colleges and universities, and in 2014, Pitzer College began facilitating Inside-Out courses at the California Rehabilitation Center. For more information on Inside-Out, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/justice-education\/our-story\/partners\/\">JEC Partners<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<li>Renford Reese, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of political science, founded the Prison Education Project in 2011. Through PEP, both Harvey Mudd and Pitzer students currently volunteer at local prisons, with Harvey Mudd students designing and teaching STEM curriculum, and Pitzer students facilitating academic orientations and tutoring in the prisons&#8217; pre-GED programs.\u00a0For more information on PEP, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/colleges.claremont.edu\/justice-education\/our-story\/partners\/\">JEC Partners<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Shoulders of Giants Launched in 2018, the Justice Education Initiative builds on longstanding, pioneering work in prison and justice education by The Claremont Colleges faculty, staff, and students. 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