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Students go inside prison in ‘eye-opening’ B.C. university course

Surrey Pretrial is a remand centre for inmates awaiting trial or sentencing
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The Surrey Pretrial Centre in Surrey on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The course includes equal numbers of students from outside and inside the Surrey Pretrial Centre. (Photo by Anna Burns/Surrey Now-Leader)

It’s not every day that a student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) takes a course inside a jail.

Once a year, KPU offers ARTS 3200: Inside- Out, which is taught inside the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre in Surrey. Surrey Pretrial is a remand centre for inmates awaiting trial or sentencing related to criminal charges and anywhere from 400 to 500 people are incarcerated there at any given time.

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Anna Burns

About the Author: Anna Burns

I started with Black Press Media in the fall of 2022 as a multimedia journalist after finishing my practicum at the Surrey Now-Leader.
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