College course teaches students about faults in criminal justice system

Dr. Radscheda Nobles has been a professor at Winston-Salem State University for the past six years. She is one of the most respected professors at the university and her students are very fond of her and her classes. One of her classes has really sparked an interest in her students due to a class project. For Nobles’ class, Victims and Crime, the students engage in a class project each semester. “I saw a hole in the department where we weren’t supporting the community,” said Nobles. “We don’t have much time to do it as a department, so I decided to do it as a class project. Every class has a project. We may feed the homeless or do different activities in the community. “My students are responsible for looking up different agencies in the area and seeing what they need. I am really big about that because a lot of times when we create things, we don’t ask the people what they need, we just make an assumption.” For this semester, Nobles chose to have her students research a person that has been wrongly convicted of a crime, spent time in prison, and was later exonerated. The project then took...