The documentary shadows them as they pursue college-accredited degrees through BPI, one of the most challenging prison education programs in the nation. To further discuss College Behind Bars and ...

Audience during a panel after the screening of “College Behind Bars.” (Kwami Atsu for WHYY) BPI is the subject of a new documentary titled “College Behind Bars”. “When Sarah [Botstein] and I started ...

This is just one of the many little moments in “College Behind Bars,” a four-part, two-night documentary series by Lynn Novick, that establishes the inherent tensions between existing as both ...

Opinion College behind bars: Education’s transformative power for America’s incarcerated men and women Nov. 29, 2019 at 2:42 pm Updated Nov. 29, 2019 at 3:42 pm ...

A scholar who has taught in prison weighs in on ‘College Behind Bars,’ which airs Nov. 25 and 26 on PBS. The documentary prompts viewers to consider the importance of higher education in prison.

A new Ken Burns-produced documentary says yes and was screened in Harrisburg Tuesday night. “College Behind Bars” took six years to make and explores the lives of inmates enrolled in the Bard ...

We made a movie with three people for, like, $500, essentially, and it sucked and it was nobody’s fault but mine. But what it did was… Look. I didn’t go to college. I didn’t go to film school.

When you watch College Behind Bars, which began last night on PBS and concludes tonight, or any other documentary like it, please don’t say that it “humanizes” the people who are photographed.

Film New Documentary Looks at Artmaking Behind Bars Artist Jesse Krimes served six years in federal prison, creating artworks while incarcerated using the bare-bones materials at his disposal.

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia and Peabody-Award winning filmmaker Lynn Novick has directed and produced a new documentary series, COLLEGE BEHIND BARS, that reveals the transformative power of higher ...

“College Behind Bars” took six years to make and explores the lives of inmates enrolled in the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, in New York State.

This article is more than 5 years old. A new documentary, "College Behind Bars," explores what happens when a college education is provided to people who are incarcerated.