'College Behind Bars,' a new PBS documentary executive-produced by Ken Burns, shines a light on a program that every major university in America should be emulating. Read JamilSmith's latest
This is the question that the four-part film examines with a critical eye. Directed by Lynn Novick and produced by Sarah Botstein,profiles the Bard Prison Initiative, a Bard College program that extends its curriculum and has awarded nearly 550 full degrees thus far to matriculated students in six New York State prisons.
The hyper-awareness of issues revolving around incarceration, education, and race did not merely manifest on the outside. “You know, a lot of times, when we don’t have access to things we decide that they are not for us,” Tatro told me in a phone interview. He added that he had spent his entire life thinking he’d never go to college. “The opportunity was there for me to even dream this possibility.
. It is meant to convey that not every job, or person, is meant for you. But what if you never know thattrain exists? Our carceral state, one that prioritizes punishment over the actual correction that the facilities promise, is the America we continue to build. That’s why it is so urgent that Bard Prison Initiatives become the rule, not the exception.
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