Ending Ban on Pell Grants for Prisoners Is Said to Yield ‘Cascade’ of Benefits
There’s a reason to talk about this issue now, said Arthur Rizer, a policy director at the R Street Institute, a center-right think tank that supports lifting the ban: “The iron is hot.” Eliminating the ban is one of the few things that conservatives and progressives have expressed some agreement on.
And it would give people in prison “an ounce of hope,” Rizer said. “In the classroom, they’re seen as worthy investments,” he said, “as opposed to another number to be watched” by corrections officials.
