The unlikely pairing of the professor and the lifer yields results for Pittsburgh Police
(WorldNews Health)

8 minutes ago No question, they made for an odd couple. The college professor and the inmate serving life in prison for second-degree murder were indeed an unlikely pairing. It began in 2011 when Duquesne University Professor Norman Conti met inmate Robert Wideman when he took a group of students into the now-shuttered fortress of a state prison known locally as Western Penitentiary — or simply Western Pen. They were at State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh for a class called Inside Out. Course requirements called for students to meet with inmates and hold weekly one-on-one discussions to get a real-world perspective on America’s criminal justice system. Wideman, 68, a...