Related Readings

"Maximum Security Education"
click here to view the CBS News 60 Minutes feature on the Bard Prison Initiative, aired April 15, 2007

Uncaptive Minds
by Ian Buruma

Commissioner Brian Fischer's Address at the Third Bard Prison Initiative Commencement
February 3, 2007
Eastern NY Correctional Facility

Education Transforms Lives
by Michael Woyton
Appeared on Monday, November 27, 2006 in the Poughkeepsie Journal

A Dozen Amazing College Students
by Mark Schmitt

The Bard Prison Initiative
by Mark Schmitt

Speech at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting An Address
by Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States August 9, 2003

Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum Security Prison
by Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith
Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, "Missy", Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, Debora Upegui with a reincarceration analysis conducted by the New York State Department of Correctional Services

Cellblocks or Classrooms: The Funding of Higher Education and
Corrections and its impact on African American Men
by The Justice Policy Institute

New York State of Mind: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998
by Dan Macallair, Khaled Taqi-Eddin and Vincent Schiraldi

Education Behind Bars: The Bard College Prison Initiative
Education Update, May 2005
by Nazneen Malik

Prison Parchment
The Chronogram, March 2005
by Jay Blotcher

"Justice as if it Mattered"
by Nathan Newman