Reinstating Pell for Incarcerated Students: A Primer for Texas Advocates

Correctional education programs are an essential strategy for helping formerly incarcerated individuals re-enter the workforce, re-integrate into society, and break the cycles of incarceration and poverty. Now, after changing a law that prevented people in prison from using Pell Grants to pay for college for the past 25 years, the federal government is poised to give incarcerated people a second chance at a college opportunity.

Learn from a diverse group of Texas leaders, including justice-impacted students, about the magnitude of this moment, what’s happening in our state, and the urgent work that lies ahead to ensure access and success for all Texans who stand to benefit from this long and hard-fought policy change.

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Someone should ask CTD what their stance is on its members that spread false allegations and defamatory statements about people. Also, how do they feel about its members drunkenly neglecting their own children.