BPI’s newest campus at Albion Correctional Facility, a medium-security women's prison, is now open! This spring, BPI extended a warm welcome to the inaugural cohort, who began their Bardian careers this spring, immersing themselves in the traditional Language and Thinking workshop and utilizing the… Read More
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Tag: Equity-diversity-inclusion
Opinion: Unlocking the Potential of Prison Education
Tanya Erzen, founder and former executive director of Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a partner in BPI's Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, warns that in-person learning can't be replaced with tablets in prison. This article, reproduced here, first appeared in Inside Higher… Read More
Changing the Face of Tech
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
A Consequential Myth
BPI alumnus Jule Hall ('11) authored an essay on the realities of race in America. The full article reproduced below first appeared in Philanthropy New York. Hall is a program officer in the Unit for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice at the Ford Foundation. A… Read More
Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program For Formerly Incarcerated People—And How We Did It
From the Ford Foundation. In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative(BPI). At the foundation, we’ve long supported the innovative work of BPI, which gives… Read More
Governor Cuomo Voices Support for BPI
At Wilborn Church in Albany - before dozens of elected officials including NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio - Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to restore college-in-prison on a broad scale. Highlighting Bard's work and the accomplishments of two BPI alumni in the audience, the… Read More