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Congress lifts long-standing ban on Pell grants to people in prison

  • Written by Andrea Cantora, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
imagePrison education programs have been shown to improve job prospects.Thinkstock/Getty Images

When Congress decided in 1994 to ban federal student aid for people behind bars, it was part of a wider political agenda to “get tough on crime” – even though crime rates had begun to fall in the 1990s.

The number of people behind bars grew,...

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