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12,000 Incarcerated Students to Enroll in Postsecondary Educational and Training Programs Through Education Department’s New Second Chance Pell Pilot Program

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12,000 Incarcerated Students to Enroll in Postsecondary Educational and Training Programs Through Education Department’s New Second Chance Pell Pilot Program

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Partnerships between postsecondary and penal institutions allow incarcerated individuals to access Pell grants for correctional education

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] Department of Education announced today 67 colleges and universities selected to participate in the new Second Chance Pell pilot program, an experiment announced in July 2015 to test whether participation in high quality education programs increases after expanding access to financial aid for incarcerated individuals. The pilot program will allow eligible incarcerated Americans to receive Pell Grants and pursue postsecondary education with the goal of helping them get jobs and support their families when they are released. Today’s announcement builds on the Obama Administration’s commitment to create a fairer and more effective criminal justice system, reduce recidivism, and combat the impact of mass incarceration on families and communities through educational opportunity.
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Second Chance Pell Grant, Mass Incarceration, Prison Education, Recidivism, African American Crime, KOLUMN Magazine
Second Chance Pell Grant, Mass Incarceration, Prison Education, Recidivism, African American Crime, KOLUMN Magazine
Second Chance Pell Grant, Mass Incarceration, Prison Education, Recidivism, African American Crime, KOLUMN Magazine
Second Chance Pell Grant, Mass Incarceration, Prison Education, Recidivism, African American Crime, KOLUMN Magazine
SECOND CHANCE PELL PILOT FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS
U.S. Department of Education – 2015
As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to create a fairer, more effective criminal justice system, reduce recidivism, and combat the impact of mass incarceration on communities, the Department of Education today announced the Second Chance Pell Pilot program to test new models to allow incarcerated Americans to receive Pell Grants and pursue the postsecondary education with the goal of helping them get jobs, support their families, and turn their lives around.
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The United States currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world with approximately 2.2 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. Hundreds of thousands of individuals are released annually from these facilities. A 2013 study from the RAND Corporation, funded by the Department of Justice, found that incarcerated individuals who participated in correctional education were 43 percent less likely to return to prison within three years than prisoners who did not participate in any correctional education programs.

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