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First-Year Seminar

College Behind Bars

Special Preview of the New Documentary

October 21, 2019

Add to Calendar2019-10-21 5:00 pm2019-10-21 5:00 pmESTCollege Behind Bars

Directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, College Behind Bars reveals the transformative power of higher education through the experiences of incarcerated men and women earning degrees in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), one of the country’s most rigorous college-in-prison programs.
 
This preview event will feature segments from the documentary followed by panel discussions with Lynn Novick, BPI Executive Director Max Kenner ’01, and BPI alumni featured in the film.