See the variety of courses offered by the Bard Prison Initiative and how professors teach them. We go further into the students' backstories and the personal and psychological difficulties of prison life. Finally, we learn the benefits of BPI and how it was created due to the removal of previous education programs as a result of the 1994 Crime Bill.

In this lesson, students will look into and interpret the UN Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in 1948. They will watch the clip from College Behind Bars while taking down notes in the included graphic handout. The instructor will lead the class into a deeper examination using the included discussion questions.