REPRESA, California The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men appeared to hoots and cheers from their families. They marched to the stage one surrounded by barbed wire fence and constructed by fellow prisoners.
The Pell Grant program is about to expand exponentially next month, giving about 30,000 prisoners the opportunity to earn innancial aid to receive education.
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The federal Pell Grant program, which offers the neediest undergraduates tuition aid, will give thousands more prisoners tuition aid as the program is set to expand next month.
The federal Pell Grant program, which provides tuition aid to the neediest undergraduates, is set to give 30,000 more incarcerated students financial aid each year. Earning a college education can be a difference-maker for those transitioning out of prison.