CfJ will be premiering the short documentary Degrees of Freedom, a project of our Oral History Research Project, about the organizing efforts of women at Bedford Hills prison to bring the college program back
We are thrilled to share that our documentary short film, Degrees of Freedom, was offered early acceptance to the Dances with Films Festival, and will make its WORLD PREMIERE on December 5 in NYC!
ABOUT DEGREES OF FREEDOM
In the tough-on-crime 1990s, harsh laws eliminated college programs in American prisons. Refusing to accept this injustice, women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility were determined to bring higher education back inside the prison walls. Their achievement became a widely emulated model, leading to thousands of incarcerated people earning diplomas. In Degrees of Freedom, the women narrate their powerful journey of organizing behind and through the bars of New York’s only maximum-security prison for women to create a transformative community of care —reclaiming their futures and challenging the narrative of who they are and what they can achieve.
Learn more at degreesoffreedomfilm.com
