Description:

Stanford University provides educational services approved by SFSD including lecture classes, seminars, writing groups and book clubs to inmates housed at San Francisco County Jails. All educational services are taught by Stanford graduate students (masters' students, law students, doctoral students) and post-doctoral and research fellows drawn from a range of disciplines, including law, education, sociology, engineering, biology, and psychology. The lecture series runs twice a year, in the Fall for nine weeks, and in the Spring for nine weeks. Inmate students are required to complete weekly reading and writing assignments, attend weekly class meetings, meaningfully participate in class discussions and activities, and produce a carefully edited, high-quality final project.