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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‘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
Three [Incarcerated Students] Beat Harvard in a Debate. Here’s What Happened Next.
In 2015 the story of the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union's win over Harvard became a global news story. Leslie Brody of the Wall Street Journal, who was there for the debate, first broke the story. Now, four years later, Brody reunited with the… Read More
University of Puget Sound To Launch Bachelor’s Degree Program
The Freedom Education Project of Puget Sound (FEPPS) joined BPI's Consortium For the Liberal Arts in Prison in 2014 and received several years of seed funding from BPI. FEPPS provides a rigorous college program to incarcerated women in Washington and creates pathways to higher… Read More
Boston College Launches New Prison Education Program
Boston College is on board! 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… Read More
BC Launches 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
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
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
Reversing the Tide
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the author of Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison (The New Press, 2016), from which this article contains excerpts. She was formerly the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College and a Distinguished Fellow at the Bard Prison… Read More