The
Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) is a program
sponsored by Bard
College
to provide a liberal arts degree to incarcerated
individuals in five different prisons in the
U.S. State of New York
. It
currently enrolls nearly 200 students. Since federal funding for
prison education programs was eliminated in 1995, the BPI is one of
the only
college degree granting
programs available in U.S. prisons.
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