Roundtable Explores the Potential Impact of Pell Grant Restoration for Incarcerated Students
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, January 13, 2021: Roundtable Explores the Potential Impact of Pell Grant Restoration for Incarcerated Students
“Jule Hall was incarcerated at age 17 in 1994. He saw firsthand how the 1994 Crime Bill, which banned Pell Grants for incarcerated students, impacted prison education. Without federal funding, the number of prison higher education programs dwindled. He remembers seeing former students idling in the prison yard, watching television, feeling ‘a lack of direction in their day-to-day lives.’
‘I saw the desolation and despair and the lack of inspiration, frankly, that was left in the wake of removing these academic programs for people in prison,’ Hall said.”
