On Wednesday, September 18th, BPI Restart Fellow and coordinator, Ornell Caesar '16 joins fellow BPI alum Antoine Patton '12 and Jenn Schiffer for Changing the Face of Tech: a Tech & Reentry Gathering. This first gathering has been organized in partnership between Restart and… Read More
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Archive: September 2019
College Behind Bars Screens at the Congressional Black Caucus
On September 13, Congressman Bobby Rush hosted a screening at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Conference to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Crime Bill. Ken Burns and Deanna Hoskins of JustLeadershipUSA joined director Lynn Novick, Max Kenner, and BPI alumnus Wes Caines ’09 for a discussion. If you'll be… Read More
College Behind Bars Screenings
College Behind Bars COLLEGE BEHIND BARS, a four-part documentary film series, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in… Read More
25th Anniversary of the 1994 Crime Bill
September 13th marks the 25th anniversary of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, often referred to the 1994 Crime Bill. It was one of the most far-reaching crime bills ever passed by Congress, with widespread implications. But for the field… Read More