USC Prison Education Project

05/05/2026

We’re excited to announce that the USC Prison Education Project is hiring for the 2026–2027 academic year! 🎊

If you’re a USC student passionate about expanding access to education and working with incarcerated communities, we encourage you to apply. We are currently hiring for a Communications Student Director and two Graduate Fellows. These roles offer a unique opportunity to support meaningful programming, lead outreach efforts, and engage directly with PEP’s mission. ✨📖

Graduate Fellows will help plan and host community events, represent PEP at outreach opportunities, and support program coordination, while the Communications Student Director will lead social media, marketing, and community engagement initiatives.

To apply, please submit your resume and a brief statement of interest to [email protected]. For questions or more information, feel free to reach out to the same email. Must be Work-Study Eligible!

05/05/2026

We’re excited to announce that the USC Prison Education Project is hiring for the 2026–2027 academic year!

If you’re a USC student passionate about expanding access to education and working with incarcerated communities, we encourage you to apply. We are currently hiring for a Communications Student Director and two Graduate Fellows. These roles offer a unique opportunity to support meaningful programming, lead outreach efforts, and engage directly with PEP’s mission. 📖 ✨

Graduate Fellows will help plan and host community events, represent PEP at outreach opportunities, and support program coordination, while the Communications Student Director will lead social media, marketing, and community engagement initiatives.

To apply, please submit your resume and a brief statement of interest to [email protected]. For questions or more information, feel free to reach out to the same email.

05/01/2026

Celebrating an unforgettable WRIT 320 Inside-Out Workshop! ✨

This year brought together our largest cohort yet, uniting students in a shared space of learning, creativity, and connection. It was an honor to gather on campus, hear the powerful readings from the anthology, and celebrate the work everyone poured into this experience.

Here’s to storytelling that builds bridges. Thank you all! 💛

04/27/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended the Reform Alliance class takeover event!!! 🌟 USC students and attendees appreciated the opportunity to learn, participate, and share ideas on how students can take civic action and reform legislation in probation and parole processes and procedures. 📖

Thank you to Reform Alliance and speaker Rondo for sharing such vivid insight on how students can learn from transitioning back into homes to the challenges individuals face in parole. We truly enjoyed the conversations within the classroom and insightful experiences that were shared. ❤️

04/21/2026

04/21/2026

Please join us to celebrate the work of this year’s
WRIT 320 Inside-Out Workshop! 📑

320 co-enrolls students in custody with on campus students with both populations receiving course credit. This was a largest 320 cohort ever! And we’re thrilled to host this on campus celebration of everyone’s work and to read from this year’s anthology. 📕

There will be tacos and aguas frescas from Chichen Itza. All are welcome! 🌮🥤

04/20/2026

Join us for Beyond Documentary—a screening and conversation with filmmaker Asia Johnson that brings lived experience, storytelling, and justice to the forefront.

🗓 Monday, April 20th
🕕 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 USC – Social Work Building (MRF 102)

Be part of the conversation.

04/16/2026

At Sing Sing prison, a group of incarcerated men organize and prepare for a TED-style event, featuring personal narratives and ideas for changing the prison system. With immersive access to Sing Sing, the film follows the speakers’ emotional journeys from first audition to their final climactic moments on stage.

Produced & Directed by Asia Johnson and Michael Kleiman
Executive Produced by Clarence Maclin and JJ Velazquez
Co-Produced by Sean Pica

Please Join Us 🎬

🗓 April 20, 2026
⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 MRF Room 102

Runtime: 89 minutes | English | USA

Come watch. Come listen. Come see a different perspective.

04/15/2026

The Beyond Documentary Trailer. 🎥

04/14/2026

A space inside Sing Sing transforms into something extraordinary: a forum for incarcerated men preparing to share ideas shaped by their lives inside prison.

Through personal narratives and ideas shaped by life behind the walls, the film offers an intimate look at reflection, depth, and vulnerability within the prison system.

The documentary will also be featured in an upcoming screening at USC, bringing these stories into conversation beyond the prison itself. We hope you’ll join us. Details coming out soon. ✨

04/10/2026

Please join us to celebrate the work of this year’s WRIT 320 Inside-Out Workshop! 320 co-enrolls students in custody with on campus students with both populations receiving course credit. This was a largest 320 cohort ever! And we’re thrilled to host this on campus celebration of everyone’s work and to read from this year’s anthology. There will be tacos and aguas frescas from Chichen Itza. All are welcome!