A new course will help University of Tennessee students learn more about criminal justice and improve the efficiency of Knox County's criminal justice system, UT-Knoxville officials said Thursday. Dr. Lonnie McIntyre, UT-Knoxville education professor, said students will attend at least 10 Knox County Criminal Court sessions next spring.
Volunteers are a major part of the workforce that handles the state's corrections workload.
The students will study the roles of the offices of probation, public defender, attorney general and criminal court judge and do volunteer work for them. McIntyre said the course will expose students to jobs in fields such as social work, law, human services and probation.