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✳ THE MASTER’S PROGRAM ON SCREEN54 VIDEOS. 15 PODCASTS. TWO CAMPUSES.

The MPS Playlist.

Watch and listen to the program in motion.

Documentaries, news broadcasts, talks, services, and podcast conversations from the master’s programs at Sing Sing and Bedford Hills.

SING SING & BEDFORD HILLS
New York Theological Seminary’s Master of Professional Studies Program — Sing SingNYTS · 2023New York Theological Seminary’s Master of Professional Studies Program — Sing SingNYTS’ Sing Sing Program… Transforming LivesNYTS · 2022NYTS’ Sing Sing Program… Transforming LivesNew York Theological Seminary MPS Program on WPix 11WPIX 11 / NYTS · 2022New York Theological Seminary MPS Program on WPix 11Sing Sing CampaignNYTS · 2010Sing Sing Campaign20 to Life: Prisoners Find a Purpose at Sing SingOdyssey Impact · 201220 to Life: Prisoners Find a Purpose at Sing SingA Life Behind Bars: Transformation Through EducationOdyssey Impact · 2014A Life Behind Bars: Transformation Through EducationJustice Forum: Incarceration and Religion — Bicentenary of Sing Sing PrisonHeyman Center, Columbia University · 2025Justice Forum: Incarceration and Religion — Bicentenary of Sing Sing PrisonMr. Bill Webber Interview by Melvin IsaacMelvin Isaac · 2018Mr. Bill Webber Interview by Melvin IsaacEric Waters on Bill Webber’s InfluenceNYTS · 2020Eric Waters on Bill Webber’s InfluenceJohn Ducksworth on Bill Webber’s LegacyNYTS · 2020John Ducksworth on Bill Webber’s LegacyPresident Walrond Interviews Tom Webber and Julio MedinaNYTS · 2020President Walrond Interviews Tom Webber and Julio MedinaDr. C. Vernon Mason on Bill Webber’s LegacyNYTS · 2020Dr. C. Vernon Mason on Bill Webber’s LegacyState of the Judiciary 2025 — Historic Second Look Act AddressNew York State Court of Appeals · 2025State of the Judiciary 2025 — Historic Second Look Act AddressCommunities Not Cages — Second Look SymposiumUnion Theological Seminary · 2025Communities Not Cages — Second Look SymposiumHard Road Home — The Exodus Film StoryPBS / Exodus Transitional Community · 2005Hard Road Home — The Exodus Film StoryThe Role of Poverty, Addiction, & Trauma in the Prison & Re-Entry ExperienceA Way Out · 2024The Role of Poverty, Addiction, & Trauma in the Prison & Re-Entry ExperienceSean Pica — Redefining Difficult: Running a Degree-Granting College Program Behind BarsBig Ideas Fest · 2015Sean Pica — Redefining Difficult: Running a Degree-Granting College Program Behind BarsWhy Keeping People Out of Prison Costs Less Than Locking Them UpArmy of Normal Folks · 2026Why Keeping People Out of Prison Costs Less Than Locking Them UpBishop Darren Ferguson — Extended ConversationPBS — Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly · 2015Bishop Darren Ferguson — Extended ConversationJulio Medina — Sing Sing InterviewThe Good Men Project · 2012Julio Medina — Sing Sing InterviewDoing Time to Giving Time: Inmate Gives BackHLN · 2013Doing Time to Giving Time: Inmate Gives BackTestimony Now Interviews Julio MedinaTestimony Now · 2020Testimony Now Interviews Julio MedinaTriumphs in Reentry: Julio Medina & Diana OrtizSuccess After LockDown Podcast · 2022Triumphs in Reentry: Julio Medina & Diana OrtizKristian Sorbera — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingBeyond the Block / Hudson Link · 2023Kristian Sorbera — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingSalahuddin Townsley — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingBeyond the Block / Hudson Link · 2023Salahuddin Townsley — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingMiller’s Children Panel — Beyond the BlockBeyond the Block / Hudson Link · 2024Miller’s Children Panel — Beyond the BlockFrom STEM to STEAM — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link · 2020From STEM to STEAM — TEDxSingSingArmchair Conversation: Michael Tineo & Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III — Beyond the BlockBeyond the Block / Hudson Link · 2024Armchair Conversation: Michael Tineo & Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III — Beyond the BlockI See Me — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link · 2020I See Me — TEDxSingSingThe Power of Relationships to Redefine Reentry — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link · 2020The Power of Relationships to Redefine Reentry — TEDxSingSingThe Capacity to Change — Beyond the BlockBeyond the Block / Hudson Link · 2024The Capacity to Change — Beyond the BlockThe Power of a Parent’s Voice — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing · 2014The Power of a Parent’s Voice — TEDxSingSingConnecting Through Art — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing · 2014Connecting Through Art — TEDxSingSingThe Power of Language to Redefine What Matters — TEDxSingSingTEDxSingSing · 2020The Power of Language to Redefine What Matters — TEDxSingSingTo Obey God Rather Than Man — Church & Justice SundayRye Presbyterian Church · 2025To Obey God Rather Than Man — Church & Justice SundayBreaking the Chains They Never Saw — Church & Justice SundayRye Presbyterian Church · 2026Breaking the Chains They Never Saw — Church & Justice Sunday
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ON TELEVISION

Television stories & documentaries.

CBS News New York2022News segmentBedford Hills Correctional Facility to Offer Master’s ProgramCBS2’s Jessi Mitchell covers the program’s 40th anniversary at Sing Sing and its expansion — a first master’s program for the women of Bedford Hills.WPIX 11 / NYTS2022News segmentNew York Theological Seminary MPS Program on WPix 11WPIX 11’s news feature on the MPS program at Sing Sing.Odyssey Impact2014DocumentaryA Life Behind Bars: Transformation Through EducationHow education behind bars transforms lives — the program’s students and their stories.Odyssey Impact2012Documentary20 to Life: Prisoners Find a Purpose at Sing SingA documentary on incarcerated men finding purpose through the program at Sing Sing.PBS — Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly20098 min 39 sSing Sing SeminaryLucky Severson goes inside the master’s program at Sing Sing — the classes, the students, and Professor Edward Hunt, who taught there for a quarter of a century. PBS stopped streaming the video, so we rescued it from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine; it now plays here.C-SPAN1997Video MagazineSing Sing Prison DocumentaryC-SPAN’s unedited look at life inside Sing Sing, featuring Chaplain Edward Hunt — the NYTS professor of pastoral care who directed the prison program and taught in the master’s program for a quarter of a century.
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PRESS PLAY

Every video about the program.

Heyman Center, Columbia University2025Panel eventJustice Forum: Incarceration and Religion — Bicentenary of Sing Sing PrisonA forum on incarceration and religion marking two hundred years of Sing Sing Prison.NYTS2023VideoNew York Theological Seminary’s Master of Professional Studies Program — Sing SingThe seminary’s own introduction to the Master of Professional Studies program inside Sing Sing.NYTS2022VideoNYTS’ Sing Sing Program… Transforming LivesStudents and graduates of the Sing Sing master’s program on how the degree transforms lives inside and beyond the walls.NYTS2020InterviewEric Waters on Bill Webber’s InfluenceMPS alumnus and faculty member Eric Waters reflects on program founder Bill Webber’s influence.NYTS2020InterviewJohn Ducksworth on Bill Webber’s LegacyDr. John Ducksworth on the legacy of Bill Webber and the program he started at Sing Sing.NYTS2020InterviewPresident Walrond Interviews Tom Webber and Julio MedinaNYTS President LaKeesha Walrond with Bill Webber’s son Tom Webber and Sing Sing MPS graduate Julio Medina on the program’s legacy.NYTS2020InterviewDr. C. Vernon Mason on Bill Webber’s LegacyDr. C. Vernon Mason on Bill Webber’s legacy, including a section on mass incarceration and the Sing Sing program.Trinity Church Wall Street2018VideoEarning a Master’s Degree Behind the WallsTrinity Church profiles its grant partner’s master’s degree program inside Sing Sing and the students earning their degrees behind the walls.Melvin Isaac2018InterviewMr. Bill Webber Interview by Melvin IsaacAn interview with George “Bill” Webber, the NYTS president who founded the Sing Sing master’s program in 1982.NYTS2010VideoSing Sing CampaignThe seminary’s campaign video in support of the Sing Sing program.
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AFTER THE DEGREE

Alumni stories.

AlumniNEWS10 ABC — WTEN / New York State Senate2026Confirmation-hearing videoAlexander Dockery — State Commission of Correction Confirmation TestimonyVideo of MPS alumnus Alexander Dockery’s June 4, 2026 confirmation-hearing testimony, embedded in NEWS10’s coverage of prison oversight reforms. Dockery earned his master’s degree through New York Theological Seminary while incarcerated and now serves on the State Commission of Correction.AlumniArmy of Normal Folks2026InterviewWhy Keeping People Out of Prison Costs Less Than Locking Them UpSean Pica on earning his master’s degree inside and leading the program that taught him.AlumniNew York State Court of Appeals2025AddressState of the Judiciary 2025 — Historic Second Look Act AddressChief Judge Rowan Wilson’s State of the Judiciary at the Court of Appeals in Albany (February 10, 2025) — featuring MPS alumni Sean Pica and Mujahideen Muhammad alongside currently incarcerated voices including Tami Eldridge in a historic call to pass New York’s Second Look Act.AlumniUnion Theological Seminary2025SymposiumCommunities Not Cages — Second Look SymposiumThe full March 27, 2025 symposium in James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary on New York’s Second Look Act, with Judge Marva Brown, Robert Ricks, Steve Zeidman, former DOCCS Commissioner Brian Fischer, Dr. Noah Remnick, Dr. Serena Martin, and MPS alumni Mujahideen Muhammad and Patrick Stephens.Alumnilohud / The Journal News2025Video featureHe Was in "Our Town" at Sing Sing; Now He Leads the Prison-Arts GroupJermaine Archer, MPS graduate, on the Sing Sing arts program that saved him — and the one he now leads.AlumniA Way Out2024TalkThe Role of Poverty, Addiction, & Trauma in the Prison & Re-Entry ExperienceJulio Medina, MPS graduate and Exodus founder, on poverty, addiction, trauma and coming home from prison.AlumniBBC World Service — Outlook2024InterviewSing Sing Prison Theatre Group: How Acting Gave Us a FutureJohn "Divine G" Whitfield, MPS alumnus and co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, with Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin on the story behind the film Sing Sing.AlumniCBS News2024News featureRehabilitation Through the Arts: Breaking the Cycle of IncarcerationTed Koppel reports from Sing Sing on RTA and the men — including MPS alumnus John "Divine G" Whitfield — whose stories became the film Sing Sing.AlumniCBS News2023News segmentNew Series Created by Former Prisoners Looks Inside U.S. Prison SystemCBS profiles MPS alumnus Lawrence Bartley and "Inside Story," the Marshall Project video series he created and hosts for audiences behind bars.AlumniThe Marshall Project / VICE News2023Video seriesInside Story — The Marshall ProjectLawrence Bartley, Sing Sing MPS graduate and publisher of The Marshall Project Inside, leads this Peabody-winning video series on criminal justice made for incarcerated viewers.AlumniSuccess After LockDown Podcast2022PodcastTriumphs in Reentry: Julio Medina & Diana OrtizThe Exodus Transitional Community leaders on reentry, transformation, and success against the odds.AlumniTestimony Now2020InterviewTestimony Now Interviews Julio MedinaJulio Medina on faith, his years inside, and finding a new life after Sing Sing.AlumniVimeo On Demand2020Documentary, 52 minWearing the GreenA documentary portrait of Eddie Ellis — Harlem activist, Black Panther founder, and MPS alumnus who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit.AlumniBig Ideas Fest2015TalkSean Pica — Redefining Difficult: Running a Degree-Granting College Program Behind BarsMPS alumnus Sean Pica, now head of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, on his path from Sing Sing to running college programs in prison.AlumniPBS — Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly2015InterviewBishop Darren Ferguson — Extended ConversationThe Sing Sing MPS graduate and pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church on his work reforming the criminal justice system.AlumniHLN2013News segmentDoing Time to Giving Time: Inmate Gives BackHLN profiles Julio Medina — once a convicted drug lord, now a father and mentor sharing his story with the men of Sing Sing.AlumniThe Good Men Project2012InterviewJulio Medina — Sing Sing InterviewTom Matlack interviews MPS graduate Julio Medina at Sing Sing about his sentence, his transformation, and the work that followed.AlumniPBS / Exodus Transitional Community2005DocumentaryHard Road Home — The Exodus Film StoryThe PBS film on Julio Medina, Sing Sing MPS graduate and founder of Exodus Transitional Community, and the re-entry work he built in East Harlem.AlumniDemocracy Now!1996InterviewRe-envisioning the Criminal Justice SystemThe late Eddie Ellis — MPS alumnus, former Black Panther, and founder of the Center for NuLeadership — on reimagining justice after 23 years inside.
ON STAGE

TEDx Sing Sing & Beyond the Block.

AlumniBeyond the Block / Hudson Link2024PanelMiller’s Children Panel — Beyond the BlockMPS alumnus Mujahideen Muhammad and fellow members of the Miller’s Children book club at Sing Sing discuss reading, growth, and life sentences.AlumniBeyond the Block / Hudson Link2024ConversationArmchair Conversation: Michael Tineo & Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III — Beyond the BlockMPS alumnus Michael Tineo, now a Civic Science Fellow at Columbia, in conversation with the New York State corrections commissioner at Sing Sing.AlumniBeyond the Block / Hudson Link2024TalkThe Capacity to Change — Beyond the BlockMPS alumnus Raymond A. Wallace, Jr. speaks at Sing Sing’s Beyond the Block symposium on the capacity to change — and the master’s degree that shaped his path.AlumniBeyond the Block / Hudson Link2023TalkKristian Sorbera — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingMPS alumnus Kristian Sorbera speaks at Sing Sing’s Beyond the Block event on change and rehabilitation.AlumniBeyond the Block / Hudson Link2023TalkSalahuddin Townsley — Beyond the Block: Voices from Sing SingMPS alumnus Salahuddin Townsley shares poems and reflections on growing through trauma inside Sing Sing — and its impact on loved ones outside.AlumniTEDxSingSing2020TalkA Matter of Time — TEDxSingSingMPS alumnus Jermaine Archer — now executive director of Rehabilitation Through the Arts — on time, served 22 years to life before his exoneration.AlumniTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link20209 minFrom STEM to STEAM — TEDxSingSingMPS alumnus James “Mo” Torres on bringing the arts into STEM education behind the walls at Sing Sing.AlumniTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link202010 minI See Me — TEDxSingSingChristopher O’Neill, who earned his Master of Professional Studies from NYTS at Sing Sing in 2012, on finally seeing himself.AlumniTEDxSingSing / Hudson Link202011 minThe Power of Relationships to Redefine Reentry — TEDxSingSingMichael Shane Hale, a graduate of Sing Sing’s NYTS Master of Professional Studies program, on how relationships redefine reentry.AlumniTEDxSingSing2020TalkThe Power of Language to Redefine What Matters — TEDxSingSingMPS alumnus Javier Miranda, a coordinator of the New York Theological Seminary master’s degree program at Sing Sing, on what it means to be "rehabilitated."AlumniTEDxSingSing2014TalkThe Power of a Parent’s Voice — TEDxSingSingMPS alumnus Lawrence Bartley — now publisher of The Marshall Project Inside — on being a father from inside Sing Sing.AlumniTEDxSingSing2014TalkConnecting Through Art — TEDxSingSingKenyatta Hughes — composer, lyricist, and holder of a Master of Professional Studies from New York Theological Seminary — on connecting through art.
IN THE PEWS

Church & Justice at Rye Presbyterian.

AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2026Full service videoBreaking the Chains They Never Saw — Church & Justice SundayThe April 12, 2026 Church & Justice Sunday service at Rye Presbyterian Church, with a sermon by MPS graduate Deborah Pretlow.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2025Full service videoTo Obey God Rather Than Man — Church & Justice SundayThe 30th annual Church & Justice Sunday service at Rye Presbyterian Church (April 27, 2025): MPS alumnus Dr. John Ducksworth preaches, with Union president Rev. Dr. Serene Jones and MPS graduates Mujahideen Muhammad, Edward Avery, and Lindsey Furnary taking part; cover art by Sing Sing MPS graduate Denis Martinez.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2019SermonWhat’s in Your Hand? — Church & Justice SundayA Church & Justice Sunday sermon at Rye Presbyterian Church.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2015–2018Worship servicesChurch & Justice Sunday — Sermon SeriesRye Presbyterian’s annual Church & Justice Sunday services, with sermons from MPS alumni and friends of the program — audio, video, and bulletins for each service.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2018SermonCome and See (Custodio) — Church & Justice SundayThe 2018 Church & Justice Sunday sermon at Rye Presbyterian Church.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2017SermonWalking by Faith, Not by Sight — Church & Justice SundayThe 2017 Church & Justice Sunday sermon at Rye Presbyterian Church.AlumniRye Presbyterian Church2015SermonOn a Mission — Church & Justice SundayBishop Darren A. Ferguson, Sing Sing MPS graduate, preaches at Rye Presbyterian’s Church & Justice Sunday.
ON THE AIR

Podcasts.

PodcastJust Justice — Jessica S. Henry202650 minFrom Sing Sing to Columbia University: Prison Education, the Second Look Act, and Prison ConditionsMujahideen Muhammad, MPS talks with host Jessica Henry about how prison education transformed his life at Sing Sing, the Miller’s Children book club he built there, and the Second Look Act.RadioWBAI 99.5 FM — Center for Justice at Columbia2026RadioOn the Count: Speaking About the Second Look ActMujahideen Muhammad, MPS — Pillars of Promise co-founder — joins WBAI’s On The Count crew to talk about the Second Look Act movement and the people still left behind in New York’s prisons.PodcastAn Army of Normal Folks202679 minHe Went to Max Prison at 16 and Came Out With a Master’s DegreeMPS alumnus Sean Pica tells host Bill Courtney how he entered a maximum-security prison at sixteen, earned his degrees inside, and came to lead Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison.PodcastPursuing Justice202523 minAfter 25 Years Behind Bars, Dario Pena Is Living A Full Life [Part 1]The MPS alumnus — now at Columbia’s Center for Justice — tells how 17 years at Sing Sing and the master’s degree led him to acting in the film Sing Sing and a life of advocacy.PodcastPursuing Justice202523 minAfter 25 Years Behind Bars, Dario Pena Is Living A Full Life [Part 2]Part two of the Pursuing Justice conversation with the MPS alumnus and founder of the Voices From Within Project.PodcastWrongful Conviction — Lava for Good2025Podcast episode#518 Jason Flom with Jermaine ArcherThe MPS alumnus tells the story of the wrongful conviction that sent him to Sing Sing — and the education that changed his path inside.PodcastThe Wall Behind and Beyond202545 minLet’s Take a Second LookMujahideen Muhammad, MPS joins host Phillip A. Jones on the Second Look Act and what second chances require for people sentenced more than twenty years ago.PodcastWhat’s Your Cause?2024Podcast episodeSean Pica — When Education Supports IncarcerationThe MPS alumnus and Hudson Link executive director on his journey from a sixteen-year-old sentenced to twenty-four years to leading the program that educated him — and the New Beginnings reentry housing initiative.PodcastIn Search Of — The Christian Century2023Podcast episodeIn Search of Truth and Justice: An Interview with Willie Francois IIIThe director of the master’s program at Sing Sing and Bedford Hills on theological education and incarceration — his incarcerated students, their theologies, and the work they do with their degrees.PodcastThe Last Mile Radio202354 minEpisode 06: Sean PicaThe MPS alumnus, now executive director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, on education behind bars and second chances.PodcastJustice in America — The Appeal2020Podcast episodeEpisode 29: Schools in PrisonWes Caines, MPS — who earned his master's degree inside Sing Sing and now serves as Chief of Staff at the Bronx Defenders — joins Dyjuan Tatro to talk prison education, the 1994 crime bill, and College Behind Bars.RadioTo The Best of Our Knowledge — WPR2020RadioSean Pica on Earning His Degree in PrisonThe MPS alumnus on earning his degree inside Sing Sing — a story also told in the documentary Zero Percent.PodcastCriminal Injustice2019Podcast episode#112: College Behind BarsWes Caines, MPS, who studied and earned his master's degree while incarcerated at Sing Sing, joins filmmaker Lynn Novick to discuss the PBS documentary series College Behind Bars.RadioK-UTE Radio2017RadioSean Pica — The RostrumThe MPS alumnus and Hudson Link founder on why college-in-prison programs matter, the problems in the carceral system, and how students can get involved.RadioAPM Reports201614 minGoing to College in PrisonThe MPS alumnus and prison education advocate shares his experience earning a degree inside and his work spreading college to others.