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College Behind Bars is the inspiring, emotional, deeply human story of men and women struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes. In four years of study they become scholars, shatter stereotypes, reckon with their pasts, and prepare to return to society. A groundbreaking exploration of incarceration, injustice, race in America, and the transformative power of education.

As graduation nears, students grapple with the past and some face the realities of release
As graduation nears, students grapple with the past and some face the realities of release
The debate team faces rival West Point, and the students’ senior projects get underway.
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 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: John & Catherine Debs, The Cousins Foundation, Inc., Abrams Foundation, Schwartz/Reisman Foundation, Ted Dintersmith & Elizabeth Hazard, McCloskey Family Charitable Trust, and Donna & Dick Strong
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The debate team faces rival West Point, and the students’ senior projects get underway.
As graduation nears, students grapple with the past and some face the realities of release
Learn more about the students' personal stories and the challenges of college in prison.
Meet the incarcerated students enrolled in one of America's most rigorous college programs
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The debate team faces rival West Point, and the students’ senior projects get underway.
Learn more about the students' personal stories and the challenges of college in prison.
Men and women seek college degrees - and a chance at redemption - while incarcerated.
Men and women earn college degrees - and a chance at new beginnings - while incarcerated.
The subjects and filmmakers reveal how the power of education changes lives.
Highlights from the debate between Bard Prison Initiative and Harvard teams.
The Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union prepares for a debate in 2014.
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