Review: College Behind Bars Shows How Education Can Unlock Prisoners’ Potential
First-year students at Eastern Correctional Facility. Photograph: Screen grab/BBC/Skiff Mountain Films
“This film following students of the Bard Prison Initiative is a tribute to their ambition and endeavour,” writes Lucy Mangan for the Guardian, “and an indictment of the absence of funding for such programmes.” College Behind Bars is airing on BBC Four this week.