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Expansion of Second Chance Pell Grants will let more people in prison pursue degrees

  • Written by Andrea Cantora, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
imageResearch shows providing a college education to inmates increases their chances of finding work upon release. Tara Bahrampour/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When the Obama administration launched the Second Chance Pell program in 2016, the idea was to provide incarcerated people the chance to get a college education despite a longstanding...

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