College Behind Bars
Hosted by Lynn Novick on CYA Live
Free
Join Repair the World Miami for their 10 Days of Connection event. We will be showing a 30 minute episode of College Behind Bars. After the preview of this incredible documentary, we will have a post-screening panel comprised of Lynn Novick (Director of College Behind Bars), Sebastian Yoon (Program Specialist at Open Society Foundations & BPI alum), and Mahlia Lindquist (Executive Director of LEAP). This event will seek to educate our community on the importance of prison serving a rehabilitative role for those who are incarcerated. In addition, it will address the need for society to develop a better understanding on the importance and value of educating our nations prison population. We hope that people will be able to come together for a dialogue on one of the most pressing issues of our time; mass incarceration. Finally, we will have a few questions for our panel that will specifically address what activism for this issue looks like now with COVID-19 in mind. About the Film College Behind Bars , a four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative. Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the four-hour film takes viewers on a stark and intimate journey into one of the most pressing issues of our time – our failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for the over two million Americans living behind bars. Through the personal stories of the students and their families, the film reveals the transformative power of higher education and puts a human face on America’s criminal justice crisis. It raises questions we urgently need to address: What is prison for? Who has access to educational opportunity? Who among us is capable of academic excellence? How can we have justice without redemption? FAQ This is an online interactive event. Join in on a laptop using Google Chrome .
Featuring Lynn Novick, Ella, Sebastian Yoon, Mahlia