Episode 29: Schools in Prison

Justice In America

The Appeal

News, Politics, Prison, Law, Criminal, Justice, Jail, History, Education, Incarceration, America

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice and her co-host Derecka Purnell talk about education in prisons. They'll discuss the impact of having access to education, the dire lack of available programming, and what happened to prison education after the 1994 crime bill. They're joined by Dyjuan Tatro and Wesley Caines, alumni of the Bard Prison Initiative. The Bard Prison Initiative is a college program offered through Bard College in six New York State prisons. It's also the subject of a critically acclaimed new documentary series on PBS, called College Behind Bars.

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0:00.0	The prison system found ways to punish prisoners by removing all of the things that had been recognized as being transformative and rehabilitative,
0:17.0	things that lent themselves to having a culture of progress and learning in prisons.
0:24.0	It is about punishment.
0:26.4	It is about disciplining people.
0:28.8	It is about voter suppression.
0:30.6	It is about marginalizing people. It is never, never has been about redemption or rehabilitation.
0:33.0	It is never, never has been about redemption or rehabilitation.
0:40.0	Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and I'm Derek Prenell, and this is Justice in America.
0:49.0	Each show we discuss a topic in the American Criminal Justice System and we try to explain what it is and how it works.
0:55.0	Thank you everyone for joining us today.
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1:08.4	So we open the show with a clip from our guests Wesley Keynes and
1:11.9	Dywan Tattro.
1:13.7	Wes is the chief of staff at the Bronx defenders and an alum of the Bard
1:17.9	Prison Initiative or BPI.
1:20.1	And Dywan works at the Bard Prison Initiative as their government affairs officer, and he's also an alumnus of the program.
1:26.2	Last week we talked to Judith Brown-Dianus about the School to Prison Pipeline.
1:31.2	This week, we're still talking about schools and prisons, but we're looking at and
1:34.2	This week we're still talking about schools and prisons, but we're looking at something slightly different.
1:37.2	Education in prison. What does it mean to get an education in prison?
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