More colleges and universities chosen to enrol prisoners

For the past seven years, dozens of colleges and universities across the United States have been providing hope where there has been almost none, giving prisoners a chance to restart their lives through education. The Biden administration is hoping to expand that help even further, writes Chris Burt for University Business.

The US Department of Education announced it has selected an additional 73 institutions to take part in the Second Chance Pell Experiment, which has helped incarcerated individuals gain access to higher education programming since 2015. The programme, with its third wave of new additions, has now reached 200 institutions chosen to lead the way on this unique initiative, which is expected to fully ramp up in July 2023 when Pell Grant reinstatement occurs.

So far, incarcerated students have managed to secure more than 7,000 credentials according to the Vera Institute of Justice, which notes that nearly half of all individuals who participate in higher education programmes are less likely to return to prison than those who don’t participate.
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