Rachel Cavell is an attorney with training in Restorative Justice. She teaches in Bard College's Language and Thinking Program, and is a Faculty Associate with Bard's Institute for Writing and Thinking.  She teaches Essay and Revision and First Year Seminar at Bard, and writing and American civics with the Bard Prison Initiative. When she can, she writes.

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By Rachel Cavell

 

Other Work

 

Bard College Prison Initiative

College Behind Bars, a four-part documentary film series directed by award-winning filmmaker Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the story of a small group of incarcerated men and women struggling to earn college degrees and turn their lives around in one of the most rigorous and effective prison education programs in the United States – the Bard Prison Initiative.

Now streaming on PBS.org