Elain Gould Behind Bars

Ken Burns Presents: COLLEGE BEHIND BARS: A Film by Lynn Novick tells the personal stories of a dozen incarcerated men and women determined to turn their lives around and earn college degrees in the rigorous Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). Shot over four years in maximum and medium security prisons in NY State, the four-part documentary series puts a human face on mass incarceration and reveals the trans-formative power of education. Producers: Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, Salimah El-Amin, Mari.

With unprecedented access, Ross Kemp immerses himself in prison life at the sharp end in HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow. The iconic prison has a formidable reputation and has served the city for over 130 years. With privileged and exclusive access to every part of the jail, Ross discovers what it is really like to be an inmate and how prison officers handle the violence, homemade weapons and drugs, which cast a shadow across daily life behind bars. He discovers what it is like to be a lifer, meets a prisoner preparing for freedom and with trepidation, enters the wing of the prison housing sex offenders, the fastest growing group of inmates in the prison system today.

In America at any one time there are over 70,000 children behind bars. This pgoram meets children in high-security juvenile prisons who have committed shocking crimes.