Pell Grants for incarcerated students went into effect on July 1 — meaning an estimated 760,000 additional incarcerated people could be eligible for a Pell Grant through prison education programs.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.More incarcerated Ohioans could soon be eligible to take college classes while behind bars.
Those who participate in some type of education program while incarcerated were up to 43% less likely to return to prison and were 13% more likely to be employed, according to a RAND Corporation Survey. Each of those schools — with the expectation of Franklin and Wilmington — already have some level of Pell Grant eligibility. But Franklin and Wilmington recently started to initiate the process to become Pell eligible, said Ohio Central School System Superintendent Jennifer Sanders.
Franklin, which offers classes at London Correctional Institution, has submitted the necessary steps so far with ODRC and is waiting to hear back from their regional accreditor — the Higher Learning Commission, Kuehnl said. Once they have gone through HLC, the university can apply to the U.S. Department of Education.
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