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Breaking: Gov. Hochul just announced a plan to restore Tuition Assistance Program funding to incarcerated New Yorkers, lifting a 30 yr ban. At BPI, we stand with @GovKathyHochul & #TurnOnTheTapNY in bringing equitable access to higher education to incarcerated New Yorkers. 🧵
In 1995, NY banned incarcerated people from accessing its Tuition Assistance Program. That ban is still in place today despite the fact that college-in-prison is one of the most effective means to successfully reintegrate people back into their communities. #TurnOnTheTapNY
Policymakers knew it then, and they know it now, that if someone gets an education in prison, he/she is not only part of the least likely demographic to ever return to prison but also part of the most likely demographic to be successful. #TurnOnTheTapNY
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The news today from Washington signals the biggest victory in the field of #CollegeInPrison in decades. It’s a long time coming. This undoes the #94crimebill’s ban on #Pell Grants for incarcerated students. #PellRestoration #PELLYES
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Prior to the #94CrimeBill, college was common, even normal, in state and federal prisons across the country. The #Pell ban eviscerated college nearly overnight.
#PellRestoration
bpi.bard.edu/pell/
Since then, a small but growing number of privately funded programs helped keep the field alive. @BPIBard has been proud to be one of them, but we want to shout out our friends & fellow travelers at @MtTamCollege @HudsonLink & women in Bedford Hills who got so much of this going.
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