15. Mass Incarceration, Prison Reform, and Education with BPI
Episode description
Jessica Neptune is Director of National Engagement for the Bard Prison Initiative and leads BPI’s Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison at Bard College. She is the founder of BPI’s Women’s College Partnership at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Prior to her return to BPI, an organization she helped start as an undergraduate, she was an ACLS Public Fellow where she worked on criminal justice reform with the Obama Administration’s Federal Interagency Reentry Council. She holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship is on the making of the carceral state and the policies and politics of punishment.
Djyuan Tatro is a Bard Prison Initiative alumnus, Senior Advisor of Strategic Outreach at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Board Member at The Fortune Society.
Please watch the amazing PBS documentary "College Behind Bars" now on Netflix.
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Books Recommended by Jessica Neptune:
College in Prison - Daniel Karpowitz
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Freedom Dreams - Robin D.G. Kelley
Getting Tough - Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba
Books Recommended by Dyjuan Tatro:
Presumed Criminal - Carl Suddler
The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander
The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale
Until We Reckon - Danielle Sered
College Behind Bars (Documentary) - Netflix or PBS
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