Bard Prison Initiative
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Bard Prison Initiative
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Defying expectations of who college is for and where it can lead.
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Join us in making a gift that champions rigorous, in-person, and degree-granting college opportunities for incarcerated students in NY and beyond.

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September 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Featured in the "Finding Beauty" series, Robert writes about the loss experienced when trees — young & old, small & large — are felled in a prison yard. The work reminds us of the meaning each of us can make, & the harm any of us can do, as we choose to honor or ignore what is precious around us.
August 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Join us for the official launch of the GFS Manifesto— the first-ever collective document authored by formerly incarcerated university students and graduates worldwide that outlines key issues that must address to advance the "Education Not Incarceration" movement.
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June 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
At BPI, that means proudly championing educational access and equity for students, wherever they may be — in prison and beyond — and continuing to fight for dignified, in-person college education as ambitious as the students we serve.
June 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
attended the Morehouse (Inside) Art (Outside) event as part of an ongoing partnership with the BPI Consortium for the Liberal Arts In Prison.

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April 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The wildcat strike quickly spread across the system, entirely shutting down one prison after another statewide. College and every activity in the prisons is completely on pause.

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Crisis in New York's Prisons - Bard Prison Initiative
As you likely are aware by now, state prisons in New York have fallen into crisis over the past week. Last Monday, in an action uncoordinated with the union, officers at two upstate prisons walked off...
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February 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
There's still time to contact the Illinois Senate to ask them to bring HB3740 to a vote. Visit bpi.bard.edu/beyond/advoc... and take actiok now!
The time is now to pass HB3740!
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January 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
showing how college-in-prison increases voting & civic life for alumni and extends to their families’ as well. The researchers are: Hancy Maxis ’15, MPH, Anibal Cortes ’08, MPH, Robert Riggs ’10, MA, MPhil, Rodney Spivey-Jones ’17, Matthew Denney, Ph.D., Hannah Henry, & Robert Tynes, Ph.D. 2/2
December 4, 2024 at 9:05 PM