I mean, both - from the documentary, it seems that both of you had supportive families. My family loves Bard College. Hes a regular at the local Starbucks, where he takes his coffee with cinnamon, not too much sugar.. Did you feel yourself changing as you moved through these courses? And then this changed in the '90s when we had the crime bill, right? GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. The College: Comprehensive Academic Engagement. NOVICK: You know, Sarah and I, when we got into the project, we were focusing on the transformational aspect of it, power of education, and what did it mean to get this education while in prison? TATRO: And so I got to walk across the stage on Bard's Annandale campus with the other 400 students in my year in 2018. Who among us is capable of academic excellence? Who has access to educational opportunity? The vast majority of people in this country that are incarcerated are going to be returning to society. College Behind Bars, an Emmy-nominated, four-part documentary about the transformative power of education. Who among us is capable of academic excellence? And what the film shows and the work at BPI shows is that that cannot be more untrue. DAVIES: Lynn Novick, congratulations on the documentary. With Botstein onboard as a producer, Novick set out to direct what became the four-part PBS docuseries "College Behind Bars." Executive produced by Burns, the documentary examines mass. But I also look at the Manhattan skyline. 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. YOON: Well, classes usually happen in between counts. . We always have to be mindful of how those people like myself are returning back to their communities and back to their families. 1. However, I would go to school, and just school - I could never reconcile it with the reality of my everyday life at home, and so I felt very isolated and disengaged there - skipped school very, very often. Are children allowed in Turkish prisons? WASHER WARS After that, I will follow that bike lane back home and do my laundry. DAVIES: And from the graduation ceremony of the Bard Prison Initiative. I was a very precocious child. But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. You know, I would go in and do all the work in a day or two, and the expectations were really, really low. So I know when I was in college and I was reading Greek tragedy or Shakespeare or, you know, classic texts, it was just an assignment to me. And so yeah, that is a huge impediment to trying to learn. What was that time like for you? danville jail mugshots; marlin 1898 stock; This movement took on renewed urgency following Congresss reinstatement of Pell Grant access to incarcerated students in 2020. Meg & Tomas Bergstrand; Regina K. Scully; The Lise Strickler & Mark Gallogly Charitable Fund; a fund at The New York Community Trust; Patty Quillin through the Meadow Fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Barbara & Richard Novick; Chicken & Egg Pictures; The William H. Donner Foundation; Hartley Film Foundation; Bertha Foundation; The Harnisch Foundation; Compton Foundation; and Lisa Philp; and members of The Better Angels Society: Mr. Hall is the first formerly incarcerated person to be hired full-time by the Ford. I finished my degree in the spring of 2018. I'm going to get emotional. YOON: I would say that all my friends right now are my peers from the BPI program, and our network is really growing. The fifth annual BPI Public Health Fellowship Symposium featured the 2021 Public Health Fellows virtual presentations of their projects captured in the video above and the conversations linked below. Also with us are Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon, graduates of the program. NOVICK: I was just going to chime in one other thing, which is I've heard Dyjuan, Sebastian and the other students, as well as Max, say that, you know, it also just sort of changes the culture of the whole facility and that, you know, there's something positive going on and that people don't want to get in trouble so that they have an opportunity to be there, to stay there and to potentially be involved in the program. And so I was a little bit intimidated by that. I always thought that my logic and my feelings trumped others - no pun intended. Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. : r/loveafterlockup. A new PBS documentary series tells the story of one program that's offering a rigorous liberal arts education inside maximum security prisons with encouraging results. BPI alumni overwhelmingly go home to their communities and give back in ways that positively impact the lives of others. It teaches you how smart you are. Students accepted to the program take classes in prison taught by Bard College faculty, using the same materials and meeting the same standards as students on the college's main campus. TURN ON THE TAP NY PRAISES GOVERNOR HOCHUL FOR INCLUDING TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS IN BUDGET DAVIES: Wow, that's really remarkable. And I think we should just start being really clear about the scale of the commitment, first of all, that we're making to you and, secondly, that we expect of you. How can we have justice without redemption? So within the prison context, you know, people know who the guys are in BPI, and they come to us for advice. BPIs newest initiative, the Bard Microcollege, expands yet further the scope and impact of this work, delivering high-quality liberal arts education to communities outside of prison through partnerships with community-based institutions. In early 2020 BPI began working with lawmakers to change Merit Board eligibility rules so that all incarcerated students can be eligible for early release based on earning college credits. (SOUNDBITE OF MARCUS ROBERTS' "IT'S MARIA'S DANCE"). Could you talk just a little bit about the process? After the federal Pell ban in 1994, New York implemented a ban on TAP eligibility in 1995. But for the men gathered on this October afternoon, it. After serving 22 years in prison, he is making up for lost time, with a job at the Ford Foundation, good coffee and a long soak in the tub. Through the lived experiences of the students and their families, this is a groundbreaking story of incarceration, injustice, race in America, and the transformative power of education. I was - I had to show them that I was smart enough to be part of this group. And because the coffees so bad, we overcompensate with sugar or creamer. GROSS: Lynn Novick speaking with Dave Davies. YOON: For me, a liberal arts education cultivated in me conceptual and intellectual openness that invited me to consider worlds outside of my world from different times, thought and space. I'm just interested in your perspective on this because I'm just - I imagine that, in a maximum security facility, there are a lot of folks who just didn't have kind of the educational kind of foundation to do college work the way you did, or maybe I'm wrong about that. Men and women earn college degrees - and a chance at new beginnings - while incarcerated. College Behind Bars is an intimate look at the lives and experiences of a dozen BPI students and their families that confronts . 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. The majority were first arrested as minors. After the federal Pell ban in 1994, New York implemented a ban on TAP eligibility in 1995. Otherwise, you're not doing them any favors. Prison has the worst coffee, oh, my goodness thats one of the things I think anybody would tell you. My colleagues are aware of different types of cuisine and restaurants and whenever we travel together for work or have a lunch together, theres this tendency to talk about food and wine. 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. DAVIES: There was a time when higher education in correctional facilities was pretty common. DAVIES: You know, this is tough material in these classes. I'm a college student. I mean, you both entered prison as teenagers, right? James Wiley committed a heinous crime at 15 years of age. Now he wants to help kids avoid prison. YOON: Oh. And what were the circumstances that that landed you in this prison? Good job. TATRO: They are like, congratulations. Copyright 2023 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), all rights reserved. How much noise is there, and does that make it hard to read, Dyjuan? 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. DAVIES: We're talking about the new PBS documentary "College Behind Bars" with Lynn Novick, the director, and with Sebastian Yoon and Dyjuan Tatro, two formerly incarcerated graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative. Confronted with the "inhuman monotony" of life behind bars, Mr. Hall became a serious student, ultimately gaining admission to the Bard Prison Initiative, a competitive, full-time degree program run by Bard College. That kind of thing. Leath on "Born Behind Bars" Those interviewed in the video say Leath truly cared about the babies and their mothers in the nursery. And there was a tremendous void. College Behind Bars is the inspiring, emotional, and deeply human story of men and women struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes. DAVIES: And that's from the documentary "College Behind Bars," directed by our guest Lynn Novick. You are Korean American, right? I worked as a cook. But the problem is that there can - bells can ring off in prison at any time. Its about two miles away. What Happens When Incarcerated People Get a World-Class Education? College Behind Bars is a production of Skiff Mountain Films and is directed by Lynn Novick. We will continue our conversation after this short break. By signing up for BPI emails, you are agreeing to receive news and updates from BPI. And they are first eligible for an associate degree, and then if they can that, they can apply to get a bachelor's degree. When incarcerated students from the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) Debate Union beat a team from Harvard, their victory made headlines around the world. I remember telling my professor that, how can I complete an eight-page paper if I feel like I could complete it in only two? 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. Are they right about that, Dyjuan? google mountain view charge cash app; wect news bladen county; college behind bars where are they now; college behind bars where are they now. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. In 1993, Mr. Hall, then 17, was involved in a gunfight in Brooklyn, when a bullet fired toward him killed his neighbor instead. This clip from Lynn Novicks College Behind Bars highlights the kind of academic work BPI students are doing as we defy expectations of who college is for and where it might lead. Few completed high school; most earned their GED in prison. So once that happened, almost all those programs vanished - went from about 800 programs to fewer than 10. And fewer than 4% have gone back to prison. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. College Behind Bars is an intimate look at the lives and experiences of a dozen BPI students and their families that confronts and challenges conventional wisdom about the purpose of both education and incarceration. 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. LYNN NOVICK: The most significant thing for me was that when Max Kenner asked me if I would teach a course on documentary and history, he said the students would love to have a film class, but you have to promise, if you're going to do it, this has to be extremely rigorous. Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR's Dave Davies recorded with Lynn Novick, director of the new PBS documentary "College Behind Bars," and Sebastian Yoon and Dyjuan Tatro, two graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative. I mean, Dyjuan, I think you had a brother who had been - a younger brother who'd struggled and had been incarcerated at some point. This July we saw a major legislative victory in New York, spearheaded by BPI alumni. It took me six years to get from where I was to where Bard was. Funding for College Behind Bars is provided by Bank of America; PBS; Ford Foundation / JustFilms; National Endowment for the Humanities; Meg & Tomas Bergstrand; Regina K. Scully; The Lise , Find standards-aligned teaching resources for. But that means a lot that weren't - probably some applied and did not get in. DAVIES: And your dad went through some really tough times, sent you to Korea when you were little 'cause he was trying to find a way to keep things together. YOON: And part of that crime bill, Dave, was comprised - allocating $10 billion to build more prisons, and $10 billion at the time was enough to pay for higher education in prisons for more than 200 years. YOON: But to those who would ask that question, Dave, you could also ask them, would you ask the same question of students who are out here? Its always with me, said Mr. Hall, 44, of prison. But I usually put on jazz or R&B. And that totally allowed me to reimagine myself. For more information about ways to support the Bard Prison Initiative, please visit our Support page or contact bpidevelopment@bard.edu. And with time, as we become scholars, the idea that we should be limited to just vocational training just becomes absurd. After returning home, BPI alumni become independent taxpaying citizens. Part 2: 'I'm Trying to Get Home to My Family, Too.'. You have to go back to your cell. The doc is also a moving portrait of individuals determined to defy the odds and build a better future for themselves.. College Behind Bars, an Emmy-nominated, four-part documentary about the transformative power of education. All Rights Reserved. You tend to have these open cell blocks, and people are locked in their cells. 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. My mother left me and my siblings when I was 5, so my dad raised us three - my older brother and my sister - by himself. When kids stopped bothering me, I guess I started feeling this false sense of empowerment. Dyjuan, what's it been like connecting with your family again? CONTACT: Eric Koch | ericdkoch@gmail.com DAVIES: And that's Dyjuan Tatro and Sebastian Yoon from the PBS documentary "College Behind Bars," which premieres tonight on PBS. In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act made people in prison ineligible for Pell Grants. And there's - I'll just let the listeners know there's an emotional moment here where you start to speak of your family, and you have to stop and compose yourself. For 22 years he didnt have one. With so much at stake, BPI is doubling down on our commitments to national engagement in policy and practice including The BPI Summer Residency for emerging programs and practitioners. 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. There's an extreme amount of noise in prisons. Ill fix me a scrambled egg with a cinnamon raisin bagel in my toaster. I mean, I think there are a lot of powerful stories in these documentaries of these students. And I got there, and I took the entrance exam and sat in my cell and waited for the acceptance letter. MAX KENNER: Welcome to Bard College. - and wait until you get the all clear? Get the latest news about BPI and our work. GLOBAL DINNER SCENE I eat out on Sunday another thing Im privileged to do because of my job. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. I don't see myself as a person. 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. The Bard Prison Initiative enrolls over 300 incarcerated students in six New York State prisons. LAVENDER AND TRAP I will either boil water or run a bathtub because on Sundays, I love to take a hot bath, with lavender Epsom salts. I have several friends who are still incarcerated that I spent my summers outside of class tutoring, and they're now in the program. 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. At BPI, we are committed to investing in people, reinventing institutions and making genuine education more accessible. 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. 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. 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 YOON: So I believe that, you know, the degree is just a piece of paper, and I think there's too much significance tied to the degree. Dyjuan, you want to share something? Turkish prisons do not have a specific policy regarding children, but in general, they are not allowed in prison. Simpson and Fritsch have a new book called "Crime In Progress." TATRO: Having a liberal arts education has made me a much deeper thinker. And he said - he says to me, you stood up. But while I was receiving that education, as I said, it was liberating. And at the age of 10, my family - once my dad made enough money, we moved to Long Island. Today, BPI enrolls over 300 incarcerated students full-time in programs that culminate in degrees from Bard College; it offers extensive support for its alumni in and around New York City; and, it has developed the BPI Summer Residency, an intensive, experiential, and hands-on series of workshops on the nuts and bolts of college-in-prison for new and emerging practitioners led by BPI staff and alumni. 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. Sign up for the College Behind Bars newsletter to learn more about the film and events nationwide. 2026. 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. So I started hanging out in the streets and, you know, I had a crew of boys that I always hung out with. And I never had really thought about going to college until, all of a sudden, there was this thing that I heard about in prison called the Bard Prison Initiative. So you can be in class midway, and if the bell rings because the count was off or if there's a security problem, then you have to go back to your cells. By Tyler Kendall January 17, 2020 / 2:19 PM / CBS News Dameon Stackhouse was several years into his. And then this changed in the . These programs transform the negative impacts of criminal punishment and create radical inroads of access and opportunity to higher learning. There's a lot of interaction with the students, with the professor and with each other, and a tremendous amount learning also goes on outside the classroom. This is FRESH AIR. DAVIES: Yeah. Since its first cohort in 2001, BPI students have earned over 52,000 credits and more than 550 Bard College degrees. College Behind Bars was filmed over four years at two different prisons by Novick and producer Sarah Botstein, allowing the show to follow what happens to students in BPI: some transform,. James Wiley. She spent four years in prisons taping material for the documentary, which is her solo directorial debut. In spring 2021 the NYS legislature passed the bill, and it was signed into law in July 2021. In August 2022, BPI joined colleagues across the field in issuing public comments in response to the Department of Educations proposed regulatory language. They've earned college degrees and are now employed. All rights reserved. You can just see this intellectual blossoming. TATRO: Oh, I think that couldn't be further from the truth. It adds stability. So let's just listen to this. I thought it was incredibly well done in all ways. And it helped me understand my place in the world and activated me as a civically minded person. Justice in America Episode 29: Schools in Prison Please consider giving a gift to support BPIs groundbreaking work to redefine college access in America and to counter the harm of mass incarceration. Since its first cohort in 2001, BPI students have earned over 52,000 credits and more than 550 Bard College degrees. The recent PBS series, College Behind Bars, chronicles Mr. Halls eventual parole and release in 2015. oyster bay snow crab combo meat puckett's auto auction okc does tulane have a track. I mean, I think, you know, having taught in the program myself, you walk into class, and the students are there. I mean, there's - it's in the prison auditorium - right? Rodney has been incarcerated for 17 years and is currently incarcerated at Fishkill. I just committed a bad act. You can learn the math skills you need pretty quickly if you're motivated. 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. And also with us are Sebastian Yoon and Dyjuan Tatro, two formerly incarcerated graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative. Accuracy and availability may vary. And this is a moment from the film after the graduation ceremony, which we just saw, where I guess, Sebastian, you got your degree and, Dyjuan, you were attending but you're reflecting on what it's like to finish this joyous event and then leave the prison auditorium and then return to the housing unit where you will be rudely searched and then go back to your cells. And then I saw that it worked. 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. Factory jobs are disappearing in this country year after year. Now, I still havent taken to wine. TATRO: Yeah. Let's listen. I grew up in a single-parent household, the child of a disabled mother. Parts 3 and 4 air Tuesday. And so the film ends up and their stories end up, you know, raising some really important questions about violence and about harm and incarceration, and what is prison for, and what is the value of education? (SOUNDBITE OF ROBBEN FORD AND BILL EVANS' "PIXIES"). TATRO: You know, I'm not taking it back to my cell and going to sleep with it. U.S. Do they have a place as opposed to, you know, this really rigorous academic program? 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. We're going to start coursework Monday morning. DAVIES: Lynn Novick, give us the basics of the program. ALBANY,ReadMore, Tags: CCF, College in Prison, Press Release, TAP, Turn on the Tap, In this episode, listen to an in-depth conversation with Max Kenner '01, alumnus Dyjuan Tatro '18, and Vivian Nixon, Executive Director of College & Community Fellowship who discuss the impact of federal Pell Grant restoration; what's next for TAP restoration in New York; theReadMore, The Appeal featured several segments about BPI in two Justice in America podcast episodes, as well as an op-ed. "Officer Leath was a true example of an officer dedicated not only to safety and security of the prison infant unit, but also exemplified the goal to help incarcerated women become good mothers before leaving . And one day, we went to a karaoke bar, and a fight erupted, and somebody ended up losing his life. YOON: I never stopped being a student. I had to show my passion. 4/22/2019 That was not our experience at all. It's about a program in which professors of Bard College give college classes in six correctional institutions. Everyone that we got to know well took full responsibility for what happened and explained the context in which it happened and how they are reckoning with it today. It's always a seminar style. We will continue our conversation after a short break. Read the Interview in Mother Jones Post Date: 12-11-2019 For the NFLs My Cause My Cleats campaign, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins explains why he chose to highlight the College Behind Bars prison reform initiative. College Behind Bars remains - especially in the first episode - admirably focused on the practicalities of prison life and prison programmes. So, you know, the - in the Greek, liberal arts education literally means education worthy of a free man. A groundbreaking exploration of incarceration, injustice, race in America, and the transformative power of education. I want that education. 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