Posted on 07/28/2015 9:08:09 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The Obama administration plans to restore federal funding for prison inmates to take college courses, a potentially controversial move that comes amid a broader push to overhaul the criminal justice system.
The plan, set to be unveiled Friday by the secretary of education and the attorney general, would allow potentially thousands of inmates in the U.S. to gain access to Pell grants, the main form of federal aid for low-income...
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Pell grants should be abolished for everyone.
Because?
Wake up, dude. There is no more GOP. There is the RAT party, and the RAT lite party. Get used to it.
Like liberals, 0 believes that prisoners are in prison unjustly, and should not be there. They should have all the rights as non-felons.
There is no provision in the Constitution to allow the taking of money from one group of citizens and giving to another private citizen.
I think a better idea would be to close the border and send back illegal immigrants. Right now former inmates have a heck of a time trying to find legitimate work because you have a labor glut with a bunch of people who are stealing social security numbers and identities (if they bother at all). It is unfair competition. Maybe if our immigration situation were straightened out those degrees from Excelsior College that veterans do online and inmates do via credit by exam will be worth something in the job market.
Good can come of this - some people really do want an opportunity to turn their lives around.
Coupled with good Christian outreach while in prison, this might actually help someone. Better for a criminal to attend a course from a local junior college than to help send a middle class kid to an Ivy, that's for sure.
Commit a crime, go to college....What a country.
Perhaps, but after working and paying taxes for 35 years and during that time never having so much as taken unemployment, I’m grateful for the opportunity to train for a new job with the aid of Pell Grants.
Don’t forget that any unused Pell Grant monies are refunded to the student.
I am sure melanin content is the deciding factor who gets what when their sentences are served.
My husband and I are both married and employed full-time. That made my non-criminal, born US citizens children ineligible for Pell Grants.
Our family now owes more total in student loans than our mortgage.
My second is heading to college in August and no Pell grants for us. Sometimes I get angry with the system but then I remember God’s provision. My daughter is finishing up next year and only has $5000 in loans and that is only because housing is so expensive. She has been working all summer and has almost 1/2 yr rent put away. Son is starting at a community college and living at home. My brother is a Fed officer and there are prisoners that can be greatly helped with some more education.
I’m glad you were fortunate. No community colleges or even regular colleges within communting distance of us. We looked into selling our house to move closer to a college so kids could live at home, but after the housing crash we lost equity in the house. We weren’t underwater, but wouldn’t have had enough left for a down on a new house. We were stuck.
I still feel blessed that my kids were able to go to a good college and both got great science degrees, but we will all be paying off these massive bubble student loans for many years.
I should have told them to rob a bank in high school, I guess.
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