education in prison

Poor educational opportunities in youth prisons lead to reduced earnings and increased unemployment later in life.

In this episode, Josie Duffy Rice and her producer, Florence Barrau-Adams, travel to Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, to interview Rodney Spivey-Jones and Max Kenner about the Bard Prison Initiative and Bard College.

Prisons, one graduate writes, should be institutions of learning, not ‘wastelands’ that willfully overlook human potential.

Josie Duffy Rice and co-host Derecka Purnell are joined by Dyjuan Tatro and Wesley Caines to talk about education in prisons.

In this bonus episode, Josie Duffy Rice and her co-host Derecka Purnell talk to Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, the creators of College Behind Bars.

The U.S. representative said her husband helped her realize that when one person is incarcerated, many more are affected.