Distinguished Speaker Series Presents: College Behind Bars

Thursday, October 24, 2019 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Please join us for a screening of excerpts from College Behind Bars (2019), a four-part documentary series that follows incarcerated persons through rigorous college programs and explores how education transforms lives and impacts the U.S. criminal justice system.

A panel discussion featuring Keri Watson, Director of the Florida Prison Education Project, Jason Fronczek, UCF MFA student and FPEP instructor, LaShanna Tyson, UCF Student & EKWIP Founder, and Baz Dreisinger, the author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World (2016) and academic director of John Jay College’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program, follows the screening.

Please RSVP at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/college-behind-bars-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-71823543151

Promo Video:

https://youtu.be/DNSJidcZZU0

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Location:

Communication and Media Building: 182AB


Calendar:

Fall

Category:

Speaker/Lecture/Seminar

Tags:

WUCF UCF Center for Law and Policy FPEP College Behind Bars