Pell Grants for prison-based college education were banned under a provision of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. The latest action announced by Arne Duncan and Loretta Lynch would be taken under the law’s experimental-sites program, which gives some colleges limited exemptions from federal financial aid rules. A study by the Rand Corporation in 2013 found that those who participate in correctional education programs had a 57% rate of recidivism. Criminals already consume enough of the taxpayers money, and should not be rewarded for breaking the laws of our nation with a free ticket to college on the taxpayers dime. There are more productive members of society that deserve these grants, and prisoners are not among them.
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