Episode 27: The Bard Prison Initiative
In this episode, Kelly speaks with Jessica Neptune, the Associate Director of National Programs of the Bard Prison Initiative and Director of BPI’s Chicago office, about the history of BPI and Bard College's success in educating students in prisons in the liberal arts model and placing them into a range of careers after graduation.
Further Reading:
On College in Prison:
Karpowotz, Daniel. College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration. Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison. The New Press, 2017.
On Mass Incarceration:
Hinton, Elizabeth. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Paperback. Harvard University Press, 2017.
Elizabeth Hinton: From the war on poverty to the war on crime
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