The Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) invite you to College behind bars – Educating for change with acclaimed documentary film-maker Lyn Novick as part of The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival 2021 on Wednesday 20th October from 17.00 to 18.30

This inspiring documentary follows a group of men and women in the USA struggling to achieve college degrees while in prison. The Bard Prison Initiative is one of the foremost prison education programmes in the United States. Filmed over a four-year period in maximum and medium security prisons in New York State, the films examine the failure to provide meaningful rehabilitation for over two million Americans living behind bars. 

Please join the Virtual Screening and Live Q&A Panel featuring: 

• Lyn Novick – College behind bars director 
• Jule Hall – Bard Initiative alumnus 
• Jon Collins – Chief Executive of the Prisoner’s Education Trust (PET)
• CJ Burge – National manager at St Giles – the social justice charity. CJ has a Bachelor of Laws degree – is passionate about education, and second chances and delivered the first TedX talk in a prison, about the importance of employment to rehabilitation. 

The event will be hosted by Kevin Wong, Festival Director, Reader and Associate Director at the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University.

To book your place please register online.

This event is being organised as a fundraiser for the Prisoner’s Education Trust (PET). This event is free to attend but if you would like to support PET’s work: CLICK HERE 

This event is presented in partnership with Big Picture Educational and Florentine Films. The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival is supported by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by staff from the university’s Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU)