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Second Chance Pell Pilot Program Will Bring College to 12,000 Prisoners
Loaded on Oct. 3, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2016, page 45
Filed under:
Education,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
United States of America.
On June 24, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced that 67 colleges and universities had been selected to offer courses to imprisoned students at over 100 federal and state prisons through the DOE’s recently-implemented Second Chance Pell Pilot Program.
The majority of the courses will be provided through ...
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