The bipartisan restoration of Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students is a clear political endorsement of the value of college-in-prison, signaling to New York that it is past time to also restore TAP. Men and women in prison for serious crimes try to earn college degrees in this groundbreaking story of incarceration, injustice, race in America, and the transformative power of education. College Behind Bars is a production of Skiff Mountain Films, in association with Florentine Films and WETA-TV. Simpson and Fritsch have a new book called "Crime In Progress." While Rodney and Sebastian complete their 100-page senior projects and present them to fac, Men and women in prison for serious crimes try to earn college degrees in this groundbreaking story of incarceration, inju, When incarcerated students from the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) Debate Union beat a team from Harvard, their victory made. And I was bullied a lot. This is FRESH AIR. I don't think I heard anybody use that as an excuse for committing crimes, though. WebCollege Behind Bars, which airs on PBS Monday and Tuesday night, offers TV audiences a rare window into the U.S. correctional system. Lynn Novick, Sebastian Yoon and Dyjuan Tatro, welcome to FRESH AIR. The Bard Prison Initiative enrolls over 300 incarcerated students in six New York State prisons. What I prize is the education and the knowledge that I received in the process of obtaining that degree. It's about a program in which professors of Bard College give college classes in six correctional institutions. You know, it's interesting. Bad Boys bakery was a social enterprise set up in HM Prison Brixton, in the UK. DAVIES: It's to literally count to ensure that every inmate is is accounted for. By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act made people in prison ineligible for Pell Grants. BPI alumni overwhelmingly go home to their communities and give back in ways that positively impact the lives of others. It adds stability. They spoke with FRESH AIR's Dave Davies. College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, 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 the United States the Bard Prison Initiative. Get the latest news about BPI and our work. There's an extreme amount of noise in prisons. All Rights Reserved. So people in the corrections department recognize that as well. And I will say this - when we started the project, sometimes people would say to us, oh, most people in prison will say that they're innocent and they didn't do the crime that they're there for. One of the Bard professors said, you know, I don't have all these multimedia tools that you do in a big institution, but when you're in a class where everybody's done the reading, you don't need them as much. But I also look at the Manhattan skyline. And then I came to crave it more and more. This film is about the transformative power of education while also confronting and challenging conventional thinking about the purpose of both education and incarceration. So there are a lot of things that impede your education in that space. Directed by Lynn Novick and produced by Sarah Botstein, College Behind Bars profiles the Bard Prison Initiative, a Bard College program that extends its curriculum and has awarded nearly. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR, and we're discussing the new four-part PBS documentary "College Behind Bars." I'm a son. Few completed high school; most earned their GED in prison. So there was this kind of seamless movement from one setting to another. So we really take the opportunity that we had seriously and try to give back in real, tangible ways to the wider population. A new PBS documentary series follows prisoners who earn college degrees while serving time. Jule Hall walks through Sunnyside, Queens, his neighborhood. And before the 1994 Clinton crime bill, there were college programs in almost every correctional facility in America. And that had been true for over a generation, and it was well understood and accepted that education was an essential part of criminal justice and of rehabilitation. They study all the disciplines in the liberal arts. So I walked out of prison on August 10 of 2017, and I was back in college on August 24 finishing my B.A. Who has access to educational opportunity? DAVIES: There was a time when higher education in correctional facilities was pretty common. On November 24, 1990, James Wiley armed himself with a shotgun and brutally shot down his stepmother and two brothers in their home in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Read BPIs open letter here. I just committed a bad act. And with time, as we become scholars, the idea that we should be limited to just vocational training just becomes absurd. And, you know, what we hope is that through these - their very courageous and generous sharing of their stories, we can all have a different kind of conversation than we have had about who is in prison, why people are incarcerated, what our criminal justice system does and doesn't do to - it's supposed to be helping people to prepare to come back to society and become productive citizens. The doc is also a moving portrait of individuals determined to defy the odds and build a better future for themselves.. You may change your parameters at any time using the link found at the bottom of every email. Sign up for the College Behind Bars newsletter to learn more about the film and events nationwide. NOVICK: I'd just add that one of the really remarkable things about this program is that the admissions process is looking for people who have kind of intellectual curiosity and determination. So it's just - it's really an open question. Tried as an adult for his involvement in the fight, Mr. Hall was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. And they are ready, and they are prepared, and they've done all the reading, and they've read the footnotes, and they've read the ancillary reading, and they are - you know, you better know what you're doing. YOON: And it was a very interesting moment for me where I realized that the education that I was receiving in prison was the same education that I would receive had I gone to college out there. So I started hanging out in the streets and, you know, I had a crew of boys that I always hung out with. And that totally allowed me to reimagine myself. I was in a poor, disadvantaged community, and I ended up at a very young age in gangs. John & Catherine Debs, The Cousins Foundation, Inc., Abrams Foundation, Schwartz/Reisman Foundation, Ted Dintersmith & Elizabeth Hazard, McCloskey Family Charitable Trust, and Donna & Dick Strong. And he said - he says to me, you stood up. This is when you, Sebastian Yoon, are speaking at the graduation. At BPI, we are committed to investing in people, reinventing institutions and making genuine education more accessible. A QUIET START I allow myself to sleep no later than 7:30, because on a weekday I get up around 5. Tune in for an unparalleled look inside @BPIBard, one of the most rigorous & challenging #CollegeInPrison programs. YOON: Oh. They worked with former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, whose dossier was leaked and published. After a break, they'll talk about getting their degrees, leaving prison and rejoining their families and how they think a liberal arts education changed them. And I said, that's what I'm going to do, and I was in a different facility at that time - easier said than done. Ive got to say, this is the worst part of Sunnyside: its very competitive. Did you feel yourself changing as you moved through these courses? He lives alone in an apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, which he chose for its proximity to the foundation, just across the East River. TATRO: You know, one of the great things about, you know, Bard is that it's recognized that it's not enough just to, you know, kind of issue a degree and give someone an education, send them back out into society. The Bard Prison Initiative enrolls over 300 incarcerated students in six New York State prisons. What Happens When Incarcerated People Get a World-Class Education? GROSS: Tomorrow on FRESH AIR, our guests will be Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the former Wall Street Journal reporters who formed Fusion GPS, a private research company. Creating educational opportunities in prison nationwide. And when I actually started my courses, I was shocked by how rigorous and how demanding the program was. In the fall of 2015, a maximum-security prison in New York invited Harvards debate team to compete against a squad of three incarcerated men. 1. TATRO: Having a liberal arts education has made me a much deeper thinker. 2023 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). And then they're like, strip. Get the latest news about BPI and our work. The students have a quite impressive breadth of curriculum. Air date: Nov 25, 2019. Sebastian Yoon, how long after your graduation did you have to serve before you got - were released? The numbers that I remember from the documentary was that at - there were about 890 or so in the institution, 110 in the program, which is a pretty good number. "We all have. And this is not obviously the happiest part of your life, but - and you can say as much as you want about it, but I think the audience would be interested in knowing a bit about what your life was like coming up. I'm Terry Gross. And it's just really, really - has been so emotional for me to see their reaction and have their support through all this and be able to share so much positivity with them after having gone through so much darkness in life. Dyjuan, what's it been like connecting with your family again? Skiff Mountain Films 2019 | info@skiffmountainfilms.com If this kind of opportunity were widely available and the sort of foundational skills made possible, a lot more people could take advantage of it. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. And they are first eligible for an associate degree, and then if they can that, they can apply to get a bachelor's degree. All these things are intersecting and overlapping. We're going to start coursework Monday morning. It raises questions we urgently need to address: What is prison for? DAVIES: And that's Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon from the PBS documentary "College Behind Bars," which premieres tonight on PBS. TATRO: You know, this - I'm the first person in my family who's ever gone to college. Max is the founder and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative, and Rodney received his bachelor's degree from Bard College in 2017 through the Bard Prison Initiative. It's about a program in which professors of Bard College give college classes in six correctional institutions. DAVIES: And that's from the documentary "College Behind Bars," directed by our guest Lynn Novick. College Behind Bars, which airs on PBS Monday and Tuesday night, offers TV audiences a rare window into the U.S. correctional system. Add College Behind Bars to your must watch list! (Speaking Korean) Thank you. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "COLLEGE BEHIND BARS"). I have to read a lot for work, so whether its grants or theory-related and I mean, its great reading, but its not like Walter Mosley or some of those things I became fond of. In spring 2021 the NYS legislature passed the bill, and it was signed into law in July 2021. James Herriots adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire get a new TV adaptation. And what's incredible is that you can also serve as tutors, so you're constantly working with other students who are trying to obtain their associate's degrees or bachelor's. You have this big smile on your face when you're leaving the auditorium and the mess hall. You tend to have these open cell blocks, and people are locked in their cells. I mean, both - from the documentary, it seems that both of you had supportive families. Lacy Aaron Schmidt was just 14 when he murdered his ex-girlfriend, Alana Calahan, in Columbia County, Georgia. (Video Courtesy ESPN, Monday Night Countdown. I just wanted acknowledgement and this feeling of power and security. In four years of study they become scholars, shatter stereotypes, reckon with their pasts, and prepare to return to society. There are bells. DAVIES: Wow, that's really remarkable. Faculty are going to be evaluating what you do as a student, exclusively. And school was just really too easy. DAVIES: You know, some might think that prison inmates would have an easier time focusing on all this rigorous schoolwork because they're literally, you know, captive in the institution and are not distracted by parties or dating or football games like, you know, students on a traditional campus. And, you know, just being in a classroom setting where I was sitting down with people from different backgrounds, listening to their stories and their ideas and you start to appreciate that despite the differences that we have, there are so much more similarities among us. Last week, the New York State budget included a major victory for educational equity, ending a 26-year-old ban on access to need-based Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants for incarcerated students. And I think it bred for me empathy, which is something that I didn't have a lot of when I was a teenager. DAVIES: There was a time when higher education in correctional facilities was pretty common. TATRO: Yeah. My family loves Bard College. But that means a lot that weren't - probably some applied and did not get in. And I'm back at BPI today as the Government Affairs Officer, expanding - helping to expand access to college and prison through public investments in the work that we do. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This July we issued $650,000 in grants in the US and around the world. That is to say, the college has no interest in the nature of your criminal conviction, the length of your sentence, how much time you have left in prison. Through the personal stories of the students and their families, the film reveals the transformative power of higher education and puts a human face on Americas criminal justice crisis. When we come home now, we often help each other get jobs. And as I move forward in life and as I work to be a part of this social justice reform movement, I feel very passionate about it and excited that we are going to make progress. 4/22/2019 Hold on. The Residency leads to an ongoing community of practice that builds on over a decade of cultivating a nationwide network of leading universities and colleges in the field, through the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. While my clothes are in the washer, because its right across the street from me, Ill run back upstairs and start cleaning my apartment for the week. So once that happened, almost all those programs vanished - went from about 800 programs to fewer than 10. Men and women seek college degrees - and a chance at redemption - while incarcerated. Since its first cohort in 2001, BPI students have earned over 52,000 credits and more than 550 Bard College degrees. Ill take care of the preliminaries, brush my teeth, get dressed, and I shoot straight to the Starbucks two blocks away. I'm Terry Gross. Adult learners are, you know, much more mature and have life experience. Men and women earn college degrees - and a chance at new beginnings - while incarcerated. The BPI student body mirrors that of the prison system at large: students come from communities with the fewest quality educational opportunities that are most impacted by crises of hyper-policing and mass incarceration. That means that 50% to 60% of the 630,000 people who get out of prison every year are back in prison in three years. You know, I'm a brother. And that moment when that letter came forever altered the trajectory of my life. TATRO: No. So when we start talking about what is best for people in prisons, Lynn said we should include them in that conversation. DAVIES: And have you both stayed in touch with folks you knew from the program and helped - people you helped? The vast majority of people in this country that are incarcerated are going to be returning to society. So it has a ripple effect even beyond people applying to just - you know, the facilities where there is higher education have less incidence of violence and disruption and things like that. "College Behind Bars" follows students in the Bard Prison Initiative, a privately funded college program that began in 2001 in New York state prisons. So you have this problem where you have to try to juggle these two realities, one of which is so beautiful and one of which is so dark and disgusting where you have to reveal your body and your orifices. I hope you'll join us. WASHER WARS After that, I will follow that bike lane back home and do my laundry. By signing up for BPI emails, you are agreeing to receive news and updates from BPI. And I think what surprised my father the most was just how much I transformed while I was incarcerated. The PBSand Emmy-nominated documentary "College Behind Bars" seeks to showcase the students of BPI as well as the need for more prison college programs throughout the country. How Jule Hall, Graduate of the Bard Prison Initiative, Spends His Sundays, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/nyregion/jule-hall-college-behind-bars-pbs.html. Now he wants to help kids avoid prison. I don't see myself as a person. Prison has the worst coffee, oh, my goodness thats one of the things I think anybody would tell you. Incarcerated People Can Do More than Beat Harvard in a Debate. College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick takes you on an intimate journey of a dozen BPI students who are earning their college degrees while incarcerated. This is a full-time and long-term and total commitment. As public funding of college-in-prison returns to the field the question shifts from Will there be college-in-prison? Kind of how large are the classes? What was that time like for you? TATRO: You know, I think that we want to have as many opportunities open to people in prison as possible. It radiates and ramifies throughout my entire family structure, you know? TATRO: And, you know, I'll just add that we have been - we have done screenings in prisons from California to Massachusetts. Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon are graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative. And I think the answer is no. But the problem is that there can - bells can ring off in prison at any time. And she said, well, welcome to college. NOVICK: Yes, indeed. That kind of thing. Sometimes, it could take six hours. Director Lynn Novick and graduates Sebastian Yoon and Dyjuan Tatro talk about how the program changes lives. . Let's start with a clip from the documentary. College Behind Bars is directed and produced by Lynn Novick; produced by Sarah Botstein; edited by Tricia Reidy ACE; produced by Salimah El-Amin and Mariah Doran; original music by Jongnic Bontemps; cinematography by Buddy Squires ASC and Nadia Hallgren. Also with us are Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon, graduates of the program. Incarcerated men and women in New York State are admitted to the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the most rigorous co, Sebastian, Dyjuan and Tamara reflect on the difficult circumstances of their childhood, while the debate team prepares to, The debate union faces their rival across the river, West Point. The recent PBS series, College Behind Bars, chronicles Mr. Halls eventual parole and release in 2015. This is not my identity. And so it's a pioneering program, not innovative in the sense that there had been higher education in prison before but unusual in the sense that very few institutions were doing this at that time. Novick directed the four-part documentary "College Behind Bars," which airs tonight and tomorrow night on PBS stations. Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. We will hear Sebastian Yoon first and then we'll hear Dyjuan Tatro. So I was charged at the age of 16 for manslaughter in the first degree, and I was sentenced to 15 years. Fact: Dyjuan, you want to share something? They contribute to their communities in all the ways one might expect of any college graduate. Its about two miles away. Virtually none return to prison. DAVIES: Wow, that's really remarkable. To learn more about the restoration of TAP, read Jessica Neptunes the Director of National Engagement blog post here & Executive Director, Max Kenners, letter to our supporters here. And, you know, we came to feel that it was important for them to - and they also felt it was important for them to explain themselves, how they see themselves, where they've been, where they are, through the lens of the education that they've been getting and their perspectives that have shifted over time. You know, one of the great things about being in BPI and one of the great things about this education happening in the educational space is that it really, really motivates people to be the best selves and to go on after this opportunity. how to remove headrest chrysler 200; super license points tracker 2022; did bette davis play the piano in deception; fiat ducato motorhome for sale on ebay; where is curly bill buried Do they have a place as opposed to, you know, this really rigorous academic program? Factory jobs are disappearing in this country year after year. In the beginning, you don't even know how to use a comma. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. These programs transform the negative impacts of criminal punishment and create radical inroads of access and opportunity to higher learning. It took me six years to get from where I was to where Bard was. I can give them different types of advice. Accuracy and availability may vary. This is FRESH AIR. And one of the reasons that we had to focus so hard and have that - the discipline that we had in this program is so that we could focus on the work and get the work done in a place where there's a lot of stress, pressure and distractions. I was a lonely kid. So currently, I work as a program specialist with the Democracy Fund of Open Society Foundations, which is one of the biggest philanthropic organizations in the world. Its always with me, said Mr. Hall, 44, of prison. DAVIES: Lynn Novick, give us the basics of the program. 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