Hi, I'm Josie Duffy Rice.

And I'm Derek Purnell.

And this is Justice in America.

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So we had the pleasure of interviewing two remarkable women, Sarah

Botsdine and Lynn Novick, who made a really incredible documentary called

College Behind Bars. We discussed it a lot in our last episode on schools and prisons where we talked

with Wesley Keynes and Dywan Tatro both alumni of the Bard Prison Initiative.

College Behind Bars is now available on PBS and Netflix so your Netflix can chill can

look radically different than it was. It really can, really can. It's like more

Netflix and learn. Yeah we're really upgrading your whole Netflix life. Yes, it's a four-part

documentary film series and it tells the story of a small group of people who are

incarcerated and working to earn college degrees and one of the most rigorous and effective

prison education programs in the country, the Bard Prison Initiative or BPI.

I will tell you all that I had high expectations for this documentary and I thought it

exceeded my expectations I think it's beautifully done and really really such an

interesting thing to watch so I highly recommend it.

Sarah and Lynn joined us in a studio earlier this year to talk about the documentary

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