Name: Prison Debate Team Defeats Harvard In Amazing Victory
Uploaded: 2018-01-03T08:31:44.000Z
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THE HARVARD DEBATE TEAM
LOST TO A TEAM OF INMATES THAT

APPARENTLY THE
HARVARD TEAM FACED OFF WITH

THESE INMATES, AND THEY ASSUMED
THAT THE INMATES WOULD NOT BE

THAT INCLUDED ABOUT
SEVENTY-FIVE OF THE PRISONERSí

FELLOW STUDENTS AT THE BARD
PRISON INITIATIVE, WHICH OFFERS

MEN AT EASTERN NEW YORK
CORRECTIONAL FACILITY."

THEY ARE TRYING TO REHABILITATE
THESE INDIVIDUALS SO THAT

WHEN THEY ARE OUT OF PRISON THEY
DO NOT GO BACK TO PRISON.

RECIDIVISM IS A VERY SERIOUS
PROBLEM IN THE UNITED

STATES, MOST PRISONERS END UP
GOING BACK TO PRISON.

AS A RESULT, THERE ARE SOME
INITIATIVES THAT ARE TRYING

"THE BYZANTINE HAD ITS FIRST
DEBATE IN THE SPRING 2014,

MILITARY ACADEMY AT
WEST POINT, NEW YORK.

PREPARING FOR THESE DEBATES HAS
ITS CHALLENGES.

INMATES CANNOT USE THE
INTERNET FOR RESEARCH.

THE PRISON ADMINISTRATION MUST
APPROVE REQUESTS FOR BOOKS

THEY WERE AT A SIGNIFICANT
DISADVANTAGE, AND ON TOP OF

THAT THEY BEAT STUDENTS THAT
ARE GOING TO HARVARD.

FIRST OFF, IT WAS
SEVENTY-FIVE PRISONERS WHO WERE

MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY,
THE JUDGES RECOGNIZE, HEY LOOK,

HOME TEAM, EVERYBODY WANTS TO
CHEER, AND THEY RECOGNIZE THAT.

SO THEY ARE VERY STRICT ABOUT
SCORING AT STANDARDS THAT

THE JUDGES ARE AWARE THAT YOU
WANT TO ROOT FOR THE

UNDERDOGS, AND SO THEY
TOOK THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

THAT IS WHY THEY LOST TO WEST
POINT IN THE REMATCH.

THEY LEGITIMATELY BEAT THE
HARVARD DEBATE TEAM.

EVEN MORE AMAZING BY THE FACT
THAT, AS ANA TOLD YOU, THEY

LIBRARY, USE THE CATALOG INDEXES
SYSTEM, GO TO THE SHELF, FIND

BUT THAT
IS NOT THE MOST INTERESTING PART

INTERESTING PART OF THIS STORY
IS, AS A COUNTRY WE SPEND $212

IMPRISON MORE PEOPLE PER CAPITA
THAN ALMOST ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE

THE AVERAGE PRISONER COSTS
$29,000 A YEAR TO KEEP IN PRISON.

SO WHEN YOU SAY, JUST PUT THEM
IN PRISON, WAR ON DRUGS, WHATEVER ñ

WE WANT THE MURDERERS, RAPISTS,
THE CHILD MOLESTERS, THE ROBBERS IN PRISON.

BUT REMEMBER, ANY TIME THAT
YOU PUSH FOR HARDER LAWS ON

EVERYTHING, ON EVERYTHING, EACH
PRISONER COSTS $29,000 OF YOUR

OUR RECIDIVISM
RATE IS SIXTY-EIGHT PERCENT.

OVER THOSE, SOME PORTION ARE
PROBATION, OR ACQUITTED,

SO, THERE IS A FIFTY
PERCENT RETURN TO PRISON.

WITHIN THREE YEARS, FIFTY
PERCENT ARE BACK IN PRISON.

RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THESE
HIGH AND EXPENSIVE RATES OF

RECIDIVISM FALL TO LESS THAN
TWO PERCENT IF

PRISONS OFFER SIGNIFICANT
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO

AMONG FORMERLY INCARCERATED
BARD STUDENTS, LESS THAN TWO

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