BPI Alumni Dyjuan Tatro '18 and Wesley Caines '09 were interviewed about their experiences are BPI students and what they hope the film College Behind Bars accomplishes. The interview, reproduced below, first appeared in creativeloafing.com ‘College Behind Bars’ packs a rehabilitative punch Gripping documentary spotlights Bard… Read More
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Archive: November 2019
Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison
Emerson College launched the Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) and joined the Consortium in 2017 with an initial cohort of twenty students at Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Concord who began coursework in the fall of 2017. With assistance from BPI, EPI is expanding course offerings… Read More
‘Undoing a mistake’: Inside the push to bring college education back to prison
This article, reproduced below, first appeared in USA Today. PHILADELPHIA – Stacks of books are organized meticulously by genre amid the chaos of a maximum security prison. A makeshift desk made from cardboard is placed over a sink in a cramped cell. A chalkboard is filled with… Read More
College Behind Bars Screens at the Apollo Theater
ON NOVEMBER 12, we brought together the filmmakers of College Behind Bars, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, with BPI’s community of alumni, families, staff, faculty, and supporters for a special screening of College Behind Bars at the legendary Apollo Theater. Hosted by Malcolm Jenkins, … Read More
College Behind Bars on the Today Show
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Dyjuan Tatro talk about the PBS documentary series College Behind Bars on the Today Show. Read More
Boston College Establishes Prison Education Program
The Boston College Prison Education Program (BCPEP) recently launched and joined the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. With the support of BPI and friends of the University, BCPEP has launched a college-in-prison program within MCI-Shirley. The first cohort was admitted in summer… Read More