Official Extended Trailer | College Behind Bars | PBS

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Explore the transformative power of education through the eyes of a dozen incarcerated men and women trying to earn college degrees - and a chance at new beginnings - from one of the country’s most rigorous prison education programs. Tune in or Stream November 25 and 26 at 9/8c.
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More 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?
The series airs on PBS on November 25th and 26th.

[@rwnbus]

You've got to watch this series over and over again and every time you watch it you feel something down your spine. The way the educated inmates speak and respond in each interview in such intelligent and enlightening way, you will see how education actually changes things in them and why everybody should be allowed to have this opportunity of getting higher education. Without constant learning we do not function as humans.

[@amandatrayes5272]

This is one of the best things I've ever seen. Thank you, Bard College.

[@sebastianyoon7212]

People who see this film will walk away feeling they want to be better human beings.

[@sebastianyoon7212]

@D H Thank you for listening and for your supprort, DH!

[@lopezhamilton1146]

Sebastian, you are an inspiration. I hope you all the luck in the world, your hard work will take you far.

[@Armyan1988]

Best of luck to you! Make your family proud, and continue your successful journey in this world. Best of wishes from Russia

[@walterc5502]

Yeah make ppl dont break the law and get an education

[@pricklypotato]

I just watched the whole series today and your story is extremely inspiring!

[@john1107]

Phenomenal and inspiring! It shows how the combination of urgency, guilt, fear and anxiety about the past and future, and the lack of distractions (internet and friends) in prison converge to produce competent, capable, and educated men.

[@pricklypotato]

The most inspiring educational documentary I have ever seen. What a remarkable elaboration of the value of education. As a PhD candidate who aspires to be a professor, I am deeply moved by this.

[@chrispenney]

Hands down the best documentary I've seen in years.

[@fromneptune9706]

This is incredible! Prisons should be rewarded for offering programs like this, if they aren't already.

[@ashaabdul2561]

Prison should be abolished, education first!

[@Heyitskadayy]

This was such a great documentary. Loved every bit of it. I wish nothing but happiness and peace to these people.

[@williamaponte32]

At 18 I learned car detailing,worked all my life, even now, I pay taxes, I've giving back to society. We need more schooling in jails ,a d jobs for them. Excellent film.

[@ursulasmartt4668]

For the past two decades I have advocated prisoner education and learning meaningful skills in correctional industries all over the world. Where prison administrations have invested in such programmes, which are not cheap, the end-result has been superb. As this particular programme in a New York State prison demonstrates. Only when you provide prisoners with the right tools, i.e. education, a proper high school syllabus, and meaningful and productive work, properly remunerated by state law, will there be a glimmer of hope that upon release, inmates will have earned a substantial release fund, with savings in a local bank, a high school diploma and work skills to survive in life after prison and not fall into the same criminal trap they originally came from. Programmes like these exist in most UK and EU prisons and respective governments must invest in these rather than keeping prisoners under lock-down or simply warehousing them, as one of the inmates says in this excellent video.

[@tondaleyacarter7355]

Bravo to the students for there success. Thank Ken burns for bringing this to the forefront!

[@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net]

I think this is one of the truly eye-opening, and illuminating things I've ever seen on KZbin. You literally changed how I think of people in prison.

[@Yosub]

I'm so excited about this doc! What a beautiful trailer

[@jenisedai]

I wish they had a program like that near me, I would be interested to teach there.

[@cpavlos]

Start one! For sure there are prisons somewhere near you

[@fabiorojas1009]

Me too.

[@ottooemann]

I love how the bleep at 2:01 in now way covers up what she's saying. Beautiful initiative, looking forward to seeing this

[@DrELewis2014]

Everything about this is amazing. All of our prisons should have something like this to decrease recidivism

[@kathyreyes6411]

powerful. I look forward to watching the full piece. What I didn't hear in the trailer is the fact that education can also be healing - we are not bad people. Too often the narrative is only about the individual but what about society's role in creating an environment in which some (often the poor and people of color) are hyper-surveilled, pushed out of high school and have little chance at succeeding economically? I'm hoping the doc brings that into full view.

[@diego61422]

Now THIS is the real definition of that "knowledge" that the mc's keep talking about!

[@PheonixStarsx]

*this program has been brought to you by prisoners like you thank you*

[@thomasmorris936]

I spent 27 years in NYS prison. I cried watching this.

[@shakiyagotdreams2299]

🙏🏾

[@SS-gh6jy]

Amazing docu series.... ❤ Excellent work.

[@ashaabdul2561]

Abolish prison, education first!

[@Derriqueen]

Very inspirational

[@ralfgustav982]

I bet that any teenager who watches this series values their free education more afterwards.

[@Alejo_P1986]

total admiración son mi norte a seguir

[@yangonmovieclubcompany6874]

SUCH A GREAT JOB THAT THEY ARE DOING! IT IS SHINING EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE PRISONS IN THE WORLD.

[@williamaponte32]

I made it,we need to hire , more rebilitatiom, give a chance,I'm paying taxes now.

[@Jinipoem]

Books change life’s. With a college degree and help, the chances of them going back to prison is very low. They become tax paying citizens and can repay the society. It costs more to incarcerate them.

[@mattdickman9683]

Very Enlightning

[@YuckyMama]

This looks fantastic!

[@williamaponte32]

Great film guys

[@phattx7201]

What's the name of song with the Spanish dude goes home and is in the car with his sis?? Anybody lmk

[@shaolin89]

Where can I watch this outside US? (In Denmark)

[@sebastianyoon7212]

www.pbs.org/collegebehindbars

[@shaolin89]

@@sebastianyoon7212 Thats only possible inside the US

[@sebastianyoon7212]

@@shaolin89 Oh, my apologies, Frederik, let me try to find out for you.

[@sebastianyoon7212]

Frederik, I was told that until the end of January, only PBS has the right to show the documentary as per contract. After that people all over the world should be able to watch it through various means, which is something that will be settled between the documentary crew and tv stations/streaming services. Sorry you have to wait, brother :( Wishing you a wonderful holiday!

[@lopezhamilton1146]

If you look around on youtube, you can find it.

[@ryanbearse8831]

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[@freakmeoutwillu]

the best thing ive watched in years...insightful, painful, inspirational.

[@suzystone244]

Serious questions: Who pays for the college? Are the inmates making DIRECT restitution for victims by going to college? Like on the job training in the course being studied? What are the percentages of inmates wanting this? Will this be offered in all states? I'm really wanting to know the answers so I can better understand. Thank You.

[@WaPW1]

I'm proud to chip in!

[@jenisedai]

The goal of prison is not restitution, it's resocialization. People who end up in prison are there because they made decisions that show they do not know how to behave in society. The goal of prison is supposed to be to teach them how to behave in society. The vast majority of prisons fail miserably. This program seems to be doing better. Restitution, if any is required, should be AFTER prison, not during it.

[@kimmclarin9756]

@@jenisedai Indeed. The only thing I would add is that in a criminal injustice system rife with PROVEN injustice, inequities and abuse in everything from laws to policing to prosecution (Please watch 'WHEN THEY SEE US" on Netflix right now, or visit the Innocence Project) it is not solely people who made anti-social decisions who end up in prison. (Perhaps not even primarily -- given how this country maintains data around these issues, it is impossible to know.) Given this fact, it is even more critical for a civilized society to construct an incarceration system focused on rehabilitation and productive reentry into the community rather than punishment -- and profit. Which is what we have now.

[@richardwaugaman1505]

My wife and I are monthly donors.

[@suzystone244]

I did notice along the way that private prisons are more and more available. Do they, would they offer such a college course?

[@kurniasj4267]

Yes, they're doing math

[@sanchezs7614]

All those prisoners became conservatives

[@ss2727ful]

they are being educated by arguably one of the most left leaning institutions of higher learning in the country...do some research

[@laladell]

Tamika"d mom is too angry.Shr is raising Tamika's daughter it's sad.Her anger and spirit is not helpful.Obviously Tamika experienced something that caused her to be where she is.Sad all around.

[@DavidBates-cs9qs]

DO THE VICTIMS GET THE SAME CHANCE?

[@walterc5502]

Doing what normal day to day ppl do, isnt that incredible. Relax ppl

[@greenbyrd3665]

Great that these prisoners have decided to better themselves. However, it is just plain wrong to provide a free college education for them when so many who did not commit crimes are saddled with $50,000 plus student loan debt. Patently unfair.

[@zihechen3111]

U r selfish. Almost all prisoners are in fked up situation. They got way less chance than normal civilian. Giving.them better education helps them on getting back to work.

[@zihechen3111]

When "rich people have to give out more. Poor people have right to take away the rich people's money"is the common sense in everyone's mind. Now you are saying those poorer and more fked up prisoners don't deserve to get more help from the society than you?

[@greenbyrd3665]

@@zihechen3111 Yep. That's exactly what I'm saying! Also, I do not believe that poor people have the right to take away "rich people's money".

[@greenbyrd3665]

@@zihechen3111 If prisoners are in a bad situation, they (and you) need to consider who put them there. Most got there by making very poor choices. I agree that education will help them become contributing members to society, and I have no problem with this program since it's privately funded. I'm simply making the argument that law abiding students should get break as well.

[@christianhua8744]

@@greenbyrd3665 I agree with you on how law abiding citizens should have equal access to education as well, I think maybe the best solution is to have higher education publicly funded. This way everyone should have equal opportunity to have access to these programs. Europe has some countries that provide free education. I understand that there might be many challenges to this, but just an idea.

[@elainejin7625]

Wait, so they couldn't attend college before committing whatever crime they did that landed them in jail?

[@jfuentes9188]

In an interview, one of the now released students said college wasn't an option for him in his youth.

[@bongofury5924]

J Fuentes Sure, of course it wasn’t. They must not have been ILLEGAL citizens........

[@jfuentes9188]

@@bongofury5924 watch the doc. It's pretty impactful

[@bongofury5924]

J Fuentes Do I have to? I think I know the narrative they are spewing forth.

[@jfuentes9188]

@@bongofury5924 You don't HAVE to do anything, but actually watching documentary gives you more insight to base your commentary on.

[@sourcescience]

So if I am understanding this correctly, criminals who have committed horrendous crimes get for free what I paid tens of thousands to get. And people wonder why Trump and Brexit happened.

[@jfuentes9188]

I dont know if there's reimbursement involved. Seems like an interesting documentary. Let's see if they answer that. But its impressive that these people come out with a way to contribute to the same society that they committed a crime against. With a decreased rate of recidivism, I'm all for it.

[@earlmartin1030]

I was just scrolling through the comments waiting to come to a comment like this. It surprised me it took this long.

[@nigelbrickell4936]

I totally agree how sad this guy feels this way if he ever has children in this situation I wonder what he would say then.

[@Patrick_Ross]

One must look at the bigger picture….how much money and especially trauma will it save society by turning around the lives of inmates and make them productive citizens.

[@nyhadjaber6452]

I watched this in prison while getn my diploma big up to chosen few who's chose not to b ignorant with their minds

[@ryanbearse8831]

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[@brandywilliams9815]

Looking forward to seeing it

[@ryanbearse8831]

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[@gloco620]

Tamika!!! 🥰

[@gsogso3444]

🙏😊🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌