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Tag: Second Chance Pell
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The Stimulus Package: A Win For Incarcerated Students
As Congress’s stimulus package heads to the president’s desk for signing, the legislation has major implications for students in prison, including a reversal of the 26-year ban on Pell grants for incarcerated students.
December 31, 2020
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Correctional Education: “America’s Balm of Gilead”
At no time post-civil rights, has there been a period that has offered a brighter glimmer of hope to the countless thousands of incarcerated offenders in America as we are experiencing today. The reemergence of correctional education opportunities through the Second Chance Pell initiative has given hope to prisoners who were not fully engaged in something as beneficial/rewarding as postsecondary education and without much hope.
November 6, 2019
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HBCU Conference Focuses on Building Federal and Local Ties
The first day of the 2019 HBCU Conference focused on building federal and local strategic alliances.
September 9, 2019
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The Benefits of Lifting the Federal Pell Ban for Incarcerated People
Greater access to a postsecondary education due to Pell Grant awards would equip incarcerated individuals with the job skills they need to compete in the workforce, increase formerly incarcerated individuals’ employment rates and earnings and reduce recidivism, saving states a combined $365.8 million in prison costs each year. That’s the findings of a new study from the Vera Institute of Justice and the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI).
January 15, 2019
HBCUs
Second Chance Pell Students Earn College Degree
From the medium-security prison where he’s been incarcerated since 2009, Robert M. Williams has continued to nurture a boyhood dream of designing and selling the sartorial finery he’d admired in glossy magazines and on the bodies of folks with a certain income.
December 18, 2018
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New Research Initiative Targets Impact of Prison Education Programs
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has announced a new two-year research initiative in partnership with the University of Iowa Liberal Arts Beyond Bars program and Moreau College Initiative that will focus on higher-education prison programs and their impact on recidivism rates.
July 23, 2018
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