Congressman Smucker lauds Pell Grants as way to help incarcerated people re-enter society

But in 1994, Congress passed a law as part of former President Bill Clinton’s “tough on crime” narrative that stripped incarcerated persons of their Pell Grant eligibility, according to a report by nonpartisan public policy organization R Street Institute.

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