Bard Prison Initiative

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The Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is a program of Bard College that provides college opportunity to people in prison. Currently operating in six prisons across New York State, BPI's academic programs engage students in the full breadth of liberal study and end in associate and bachelor's degrees from Bard. It currently enrolls 280 students full-time in liberal arts programs that end in associate and bachelor's degrees.[1] Since federal funding for prison education programs was eliminated in 1995,[2] the BPI is one of the only college degree granting programs available in U.S. prisons.[1]

BPI is also the home of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, which recruits, assists, and collaborates with colleges and universities across the country as they enter this field of work and reestablish college opportunity for people in prison in their home states.

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