Twenty years after passing a law that banned prisoners from financing higher education with federal grants while incarcerated, the government is ready to begin investing in the education of inmates.
The Washington Post reports that the government announced plans today that it will initiate an experiment — called the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program — to offer a limited number of prisoners Pell grants to finance their education from a select number of colleges starting as soon as next year.
The move, which is being made under the Obama administration’s authority for limited financial aid experiments, doesn’t immediately change the status of the ban put in place in 1994. At the time, Congress decided it was unfair for prisoners to claim a share of federal financial aid dollars that were in limited supply at the time — $5 billion, compared to the $29 billion available today.
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5 comments:
Now this is some bull crap.The government is forces the common core curriculum down our little childrens throat. And, they want to take tax payer slave earnings income to pay for a bunch no count thieving, dope dealing, institutionalized law breaking criminals to go back to school for their GED and college education. Meanwhile, these criminals baby momma's are receiving food stamps, snap, housing assistance, Medicaid, SSID and any other free government assistance. This is so messed up. It's bad enough when the government allows illegal immigrants in this country to do the same thing. I'm tied of paying taxes for other folks to live practically free while I work a part time minimum wage job for twenty hours a week . I fix'in to quit my job. I'm tired of paying for the free loafers.
This is the Obama legacy.
How much lower can we go. My kids can't get ANY grants but thugs that commit a crime can. Then I just heard there's a town in California that has two illegals on city council. WTF.
Wait a minute!!! Hold the phone!!!! This was going on years ago. The first pell grants were given to inmates and the rest of the population got what was left over. It changed ....and you are telling me it is coming back? What did I miss??
Sounds like an excellent plan.
Law school applications are way, way down. All these jailhouse lawyers need some credentialing and the tuition money will keep the law schools afloat.
Let's remember that a lot of our wonderful leaders have gone to law school; Obama, Michelle, Holder, Lynch, Lois Lerner, Hillary, Bill Clinton, Kerry, Biden, O'Malley & frau, Harry Reid, etc.
So you can see that having a law degree made these criminals somewhat more respectable, and courtesy of lobbyists, they've been able to stay well fed without shuffling through the cafeteria line at the Big House. So far.
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