The Prison Activist Coalition at Bard College is a group of students committed to combating the incessant growth, inequality, racism, and oppression of the United States prison system. At Bard, we grew from a few students who volunteered for the Bard Prison Initiative by tutoring in New York State prisons. We believed that our tutoring efforts were not sufficient to address the system's shortcomings. This is now the group's fourth year in existence. Our efforts began educating our campus and the surrounding communities about many prison issues. From there, the Prison Activist Coalition engaged in supporting prisoners through fundraisers, book-drives, art shows, letter-writing campaigns, and other projects; fighting the Rockefeller Drug Laws and other draconian legislation; and speaking out against the injustices of the Prison Industrial Complex.
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