It’s easy to see prisons as an anomaly in our cute and charming Walla Walla. The state penitentiary can easily just be a set of bright lights you see while driving to the wheat fields, while the Two...
Agriculture, social inequalities, high class wine culture, and educational institutions intermingle along with all aspects of the criminal justice system here in Walla Walla.
Senior Lauren Hauck is a History and Art History double major. She's been involved with debate at Whitman since her first year when she learned parliamentary debate, and she became a policy debater her...
Two years ago, a member of the Washington State Penitentiary education staff, Dr. Joe Cooke, Jr., approached the Whitman debate program about hosting a debate where Whitman students and prisoners debate together over current issues. Dec. 3, 2013 marked the date of the first ever debate.
Security Officer Linley HaneyNixon spent 16 years in corrections before she took the campus security position. She is the first female security officer in more than ten years.
Lecturer Anne Okkels Birk discusses how the Danish open prison system attempts to normalize prisoners and how the social net in Denmark helps to prevent crime in the first place.
