Robert “Diesel” Shomaker was incarcerated in Ohio prisons from 2001- 2012. During his incarceration at SCC, he attended Hocking Community College for business management and landscape management and held a 4.0 GPA. Following his release, he has worked as a full-time employee at a steel factory and started his own landscape company, Plum Creek. Since 2012, he talks to troubled teens through a program at the Hebron New Life Methodist Church. He is currently working with his church and the local probation department to start a program for returning prisoners. He also serves as an invited guest lecturer at Ohio universities and Inside-Out regional meetings to discuss the barriers ex-prisoners face upon release. He has co-authored a paper with Brandon and two former outside students on the Inside-Out experience (see Mishne et al., 2012).
Brandon "B" Willis
Brandon “B” Willis was incarcerated at SCC from 2007-2012 for felonious assault. During his incarceration, he attended Hocking Community College for business management and landscape management and held a 3.8 GPA. Since his release, he has been employed as a foreman for a landscape company where he leads work crews for new home installation design in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. He also trains and competes in martial arts, as well as pursues his hip hop music. He also serves as an invited guest lecturer at Ohio universities and Inside-Out regional meetings to discuss the barriers ex-prisoners face upon release. He has co-authored a paper with Diesel and two former outside students on the Inside-Out experience (see Mishne et al., 2012).
Angela Bryant
Angela Bryant is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University – Newark. Her research focuses on the organizational contexts of juvenile/criminal courts, racial/ethnic, gender, and class disparities in case processing decisions, and the implementation and consequences of formal/informal crime control policies and programs for juveniles and young adults in conflict with the law. She has been offering Inside-Out courses at Southeastern Correctional Complex since 2009.
