Bard Prison News Today

In a new age of revolutionary protest, the late radical theorist Frantz Fanon is ever-present. Adam Shatz uncovers his actual life in 'The Rebel's Clinic'

Founded by Binnacle Books shopkeeper Mark Trecka, Beacon Prison Rides Project founder Laurie Dick, writer Kristen Holt-Browning, and Binnacle owners Kate Ryan and Annmarie Nye, the Prison Books Project has a singular goal: to provide free books to those behind bars.

Leon Botstein's leadership quickly demonstrated his ability to think outside of traditional approaches to college administration.

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Bard Prison Initiative will accept new transfer students after two college in-prison programs were recently closed, Bard College announced Thursday. College officials said the unprecedented transfer and enrollment project will ensure no incarcerated college student is left without the ability to complete their degree. Bard officials said Medaille and Alliance students […]

Investments in higher education in prison provide hope for a second chance in life, help reduce recidivism, increase prosocial behaviors, and break the cycle of poverty.

Investments in higher education in prison provide hope for a second chance in life, help reduce recidivism, increase prosocial behaviors, and break the cycle of poverty.

A college education transformed former inmates’ lives. But some critics fear low-quality programs will rush in.

More than half a million people could benefit from the reinstatement of the Pell Grant for incarcerated students in July, and efforts are underway to start college-in-prison programs for this group.

Jarrell Daniels was 18 in 2012, when the police came to his mother’s apartment in the South Bronx where he was living at the time. He had been arrested before, but those prior arrests happened out on the street for minor infractions, never at his home.

While Jonathan Alvarez spent years in prison, his friend John Cabrera was there to support him. Now the two men are running a nonprofit together.