Thousands of Prisoners Will Soon be Eligible for Free College Under Pell Grant Expansion
“Around 30,000 prisoners will be getting $130 million worth of aid per year to get their education while they are serving their sentences”
Why not? According to one professor, prisoners make the best college students.
The Hill reports:
Around 30,000 prisoners soon to be eligible for free college with Pell Grant expansion
Pell Grants eligibility is set to be extended to people in prison on July 1, ending a ban that prevented most incarcerated individuals from getting federal aid for school.
The change has been in the making since 2020 when lawmakers voted to expand Pell Grant access to prisoners after such help was banned in 1994.
An education department spokesperson said around 760,000 prisoners will be eligible for the Pell Grant, which is also increasing at the beginning of July to $7,395.
Around 30,000 prisoners will be getting $130 million worth of aid per year to get their education while they are serving their sentences, the spokesperson said.
“The expansion of the Second Chance Pell Experiment will allow for opportunities to study the best practices for implementing the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students, and will expand the geographic range of the programs,” the Department of Education said in April 2022.
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