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Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Incarcerated Students Caught in Crosshairs of Trump War on Education Department by On March 11, 2025, the federal Department of Education (ED) announced the purge of nearly half of its employees, leaving students reliant on federally insured student loans facing processing delays and potentially predatory loan servicers now unshackled from …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Georgia Prison Education Program Shuttered by Georgia State University announced on March 21, 2024, that it was pulling the plug on its eight-­year-­old Prison Education Program (PEP), in which 60 prisoners at two state prisons and one federal lockup were working toward college associate degrees. PEP alumni include nine men …
Former Illinois Prisoner Pursuing PhD After 27 Years of Incarceration by When Illinois prisoner J. Le’Dell Pippins, 54, defied the odds to gain acceptance into the University of Iowa’s Ph.D. in Criminology program, it proved a key factor in the decision by Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) to commute Pippins’ 30-year …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
Student Loan Debt and Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) took action in August 2022 to forgive up to $20,000 in federal or federally insured student loan debt, nearly 22 million of some 44 million Americans affected rushed to sign up. Prisoners …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Order Granting Preliminary Injuction, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 37 Filed 06/16/21 Page 1 of 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARLES H., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-00997 (CJN) DISTRICT OF …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Memorandum Opinion, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 38 Filed 06/16/21 Page 1 of 27 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARLES H., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-00997 (CJN) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et. …
Charles H. V. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Special Education to Students in Jail, 2021 Case 1:21-cv-00997-CJN Document 4 Filed 04/09/21 Page 1 of 55 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) ) ) ) ISRAEL F., ) Civil Action No. _______________ 1901 E Street, SE …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Federal Educational Aid Restored for State and Federal Prisoners by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Need help paying for college while in prison? Getting financial aid in prison for college got easier on December 20, 2020. That’s when Congress passed a $1.4 trillion government spending bill for 2021 that included …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Michigan Permits Prisoners to Seek Financial Assistance for College by Bill Barton by Bill Barton In October 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a 2020 budget that allowed prisoners to seek college financial aid through a state program that had long been out-of-bounds to prisoners. The Tuition Incentive …