Degrees of Freedom
Created by formerly incarcerated women, Degrees of Freedom chronicles the effort to restore college programming at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after it was eliminated in the 1990s. Refusing to accept the loss of educational opportunity, the women organized to build a program and a lasting community of care that would go on to influence prison education efforts nationwide. Told by the women themselves, the film earned the Audience Award for Short Documentary at the Dances With Films Festival.
Cast
Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin
Cheryl Wilkins
Alisha X Elliott
Judy Clark
Iris Bowen
Deborah Fitzgerald
Migdalia Martinez
Nakia Watson
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