The Berkeley Undergrounds Scholars (BUS) is a grassroots program for UC Berkeley students who have been directly impacted by the Prison Industrial Complex, including formerly incarcerated people or those with incarcerated family members.
A discussion of the program and its aim to shift the School-to-Prison pipeline to a Prison-to-School pipeline using higher education as an alternative to incarceration was held on Feb 4, 2020 at the Free Speech Movement Café. Speakers included Azadeh Zohrabi (BUS Director), David Harding (Professor, Department of Sociology), filmmaker Skylar Economy, and scholar members of the Underground Scholars Initiative.
