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- PBS
- Nov 25, 2019
- PBS
- Nov 25, 2019
Summary Filmed over four years, the four-part documentary from Lynn Novick looks into the New York state prison system's college program that allows 300 inmates an opportunity to earn a degree and take classes taught by teachers from Bard College.
- PBS
- Nov 25, 2019
- PBS
- Nov 25, 2019
College Behind Bars
Season 1
Season Premiere: Nov 25, 2019
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Summary Filmed over four years, the four-part documentary from Lynn Novick looks into the New York state prison system's college program that allows 300 inmates an opportunity to earn a degree and take classes taught by teachers from Bard College.
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This is a project of substance and importance, but also remarkably a series that could be watched with the family during the holiday season to spark conversation and instigate a better understanding of a segment of the population that it's easier to stigmatize or just ignore.
[The inmates'] stories are intermingled with the history of the BPI program, and it’s a deliberately slow start (one that, for what it’s worth, feels very on-brand for PBS) that sets a solid foundation for the three subsequent parts. Novick uses the inmates’ narratives as a way to gently enter into big-picture topics like recidivism, mass incarceration, and rehabilitation, parsing through the public politics of prison and revealing the deeply human stories within.
An inspiring, four-part documentary.
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