New York State Ramps Up Free College Program For Prisoners
This will help proponents of free college for all. They’ll ask why prisoners are getting free college while others don’t.
The Wall Street Journal reports.
Thousands of New York-Area Inmates to Get Federal Funds for College Education
Several thousand inmates in the tri-state area will be eligible for federally funded college education in prison for the first time in more than two decades.
The Obama administration on Friday announced the colleges and universities chosen for a pilot program in which 12,000 inmates at state and federal prisons nationwide will be eligible for Pell grants. This is the first time since 1994 that inmates have been eligible for the grants, which fund low-income college students.
The institutions selected in New York state are Bard College, with 228 students; CUNY Hostos Community College and CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with 435; Nyack College, with 105; Marymount Manhattan College, 98; Mercy College, 115; and North Country Community College, 129.
In Connecticut, Asnuntuck Community College, 540; Middlesex Community College, 51; Quinebaug Valley Community College, 60; and Three Rivers Community College, with 150.
In New Jersey, Rutgers will be eligible to receive Pell grants for up to 598 inmates. Rutgers will have both associate and bachelor’s degree programs.
Thousands of New York-Area Inmates to Get Federal Funds for College Education (The Wall Street Journal)
Comments
This is why people are happy to repeat offend, Liberals have softened the prisons and jails that people no longer fear the law but that the law fears them.