::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

buzzz worthy. . . A prison debate team consisting of three violent criminals  has defeated Harvard's Ivy League educated scholars.  The prisoner are enrolled in the  Bard College Initiative , a reformation  program that gives inmates a second chance at life. Last month the debate was held at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison. To prepare for the debates inmates were only allowed to use books from the prison library instead of the Internet.  They defeated the Cambridge Mass undergraduate debate team successfully arguing in favor of immigrant students being denied enrollment.  The Wall Street Journal noted they strongly disagreed with the position they supported.  This is not the first time the Bard team triumphed over a formidable opponent.  In 2014, they won against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Their victories confirm the United Negro College Fund tag line: "A mind is a terrib...