Patrick Middleton PH D

Patrick Middleton was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Southern Maryland. He has been incarcerated in Pennsylvania since 1975. From 1978 to 1990, he was a full-time student at the Prison Campus of the University of Pittsburgh where he was the recipient of several distinguished fellowships and teaching awards. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in English (summa cum laude) in 1983, he was accepted into the graduate program in the University’s School of Education where he earned his Master’s degree in language communications in 1984, and his Ph.D. in instruction and learning in 1990. He is the first and only prisoner in the U.S. to earn a doctorate in a classroom setting.

Patrick was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh from 1984 to 1989 and at Villanova University from 2008 to 2010. He is the senior author of an instructor’s manual for two psychology textbooks, Introduction to Experimental Psychology (2nd edition) and Research Methods (3rd edition); the highly acclaimed self-help book, Healing Our Imprisoned Minds; a childhood memoir, Incorrigible; a literary novel, Eureka Man; and his newest book, The Power of Change, A Guide to Self-Transformation for Incarcerated Men and Women.