A ‘garden’ where everyone grows: ‘Inside-out’ classes bloom bonds between inmates and Whitman College students

A ‘garden’ where everyone grows: ‘Inside-out’ classes bloom bonds between inmates and Whitman College students

In a beige classroom on a hill in Walla Walla, two dozen college students milled about a room. Half of them attend Whitman College, which has the greatest percentage of students from very wealthy families and the lowest percentage of students from poor families of any college in Washington state. The other half live here, steps away from the classroom, at the Washington State Penitentiary. They have all been convicted of felonies. Most have at l…