Elimination of higher education for inmates

[CACtain Planet]

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 sponsored by Representative Jack Brooks of Texas, the bill was originally written by Senator Joe Biden of Delaware and then was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

One of the more controversial provisions of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act overturned a section of the Higher Education Act of 1965 permitting prison inmates to receive a Pell Grant for higher education while they were incarcerated. The amendment is as follows:

“ (a) IN GENERAL- Section 401(b)(8) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(8)) is amended to read as follows:
(8) No basic grant shall be awarded under this subpart to any individual who is incarcerated in any Federal or State penal institution."

The VCCLEA effectively eliminated the ability of lower-income prison inmates to receive college educations during their term of imprisonment, thus ensuring the education level of most inmates remains unimproved over the period of their incarceration

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Joe Biden and Bill Clinton

@Mephistopheles @No_bammer_weed @Atlrocafella @GzUp @Foxmulder @Billy Ocean @88m3

The jig is up

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Prison is a fraud friends.

It's slavery not rehabilitation and education might get you off the plantation.

It's so demonic, friends.

 

[Colicat]

Recidivism is by design.
The goal of prison is to maintain slave labor, not to rehabilitate, heal, or help.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Words cannot describe the insidious purpose of this bill.

By not allowing inmates to pursue higher education and eventually get out of prison with legal options of gaining employment and becoming a productive citizen of society they would rather ensure recidivism rates remain high so that the sub humans running the prison industrial complex stay rich.

This is JOE fukkING BIDEN, mind you

 

[CACtain Planet]

Words cannot describe the insidious purpose of this bill.

By not allowing inmates to pursue higher education and eventually get out of prison with legal options of gaining employment and becoming a productive citizen of society they would rather ensure recidivism rates remain high so that the sub humans running the prison industrial complex stay rich.

This is JOE fukkING BIDEN, mind you

I can just imagine that smug cracker laughing his ass off just like in the gif above when the bill passed

 

[CACtain Planet]

Recidivism is by design.
The goal of prison is to maintain slave labor, not to rehabilitate, heal, or help.

Where are our so called "black leaders" on this issue?

 

[CACtain Planet]

@ThreeLetterAgency I saw your bytch ass defending this shyt before to

 

[BaggerofTea]

Where are our so called "black leaders" on this issue?

They are out here taking money from prison lobbyists

Has the Congressional Black Caucus Lost Its Conscience?

The PAC, which has raised $2.7 million since 2010, gets its funding from the biggest firms in America, like telecoms AT&T and Comcast, payday lender Cash America, mega-banks JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, minimum-wage foe the National Restaurant Association, and private-prison firm Corrections Corporation of America.

Many of these industries directly target black communities, whether through mass incarceration or the subprime lending crisis or opposing the Fight for $15. Even the white Democratic presidential candidates have disavowed private prison money; the fact that the CBC PAC cannot is disquieting. “These are corporations that we’re consistently campaigning against,” says Robinson. “They represent institutions that are not in the interest of black folks.”

 

[Stir Fry]

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 sponsored by Representative Jack Brooks of Texas, the bill was originally written by Senator Joe Biden of Delaware and then was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

One of the more controversial provisions of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act overturned a section of the Higher Education Act of 1965 permitting prison inmates to receive a Pell Grant for higher education while they were incarcerated. The amendment is as follows:

“ (a) IN GENERAL- Section 401(b)(8) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(8)) is amended to read as follows:
(8) No basic grant shall be awarded under this subpart to any individual who is incarcerated in any Federal or State penal institution."

The VCCLEA effectively eliminated the ability of lower-income prison inmates to receive college educations during their term of imprisonment, thus ensuring the education level of most inmates remains unimproved over the period of their incarceration

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Joe Biden and Bill Clinton

@Mephistopheles @No_bammer_weed @Atlrocafella @GzUp @Foxmulder @Billy Ocean @88m3

The jig is up

Link?

 

[Colicat]

Where are our so called "black leaders" on this issue?

Our?

Are you Black?

 

[CACtain Planet]

Our?

Are you Black?

Yes

 

[CACtain Planet]

Link?

The Education Apocalypse--20 Years of Ongoing Fall Out | Huffington Post

 

[Luck]

Look up the stats for recidivism amongst imates who receive a college education. It was under 4% for those that got a bachelors and under 10% for those with an associates, or that's what I was told by a professor so don't quote me on the exact numbers. Either way higher education in prisons has proven to work towards successful rehabilitation especially for first time offenders

 

[CACtain Planet]

They are out here taking money from prison lobbyists

Has the Congressional Black Caucus Lost Its Conscience?

shameful

 

[CACtain Planet]

Look up the stats for recidivism amongst images who receive a college education. It was under 4% for those that got a bachelors and under 10% for those with an associates, or that's what I was told by a professor so don't quote me on the exact numbers. Either way higher education in prisons has proven to work towards successful rehabilitation especially for first time offenders

Yeap, and in 1994 online colleges started to take off....and now with public 2 year and 4 year schools starting to have online degree programs, I was thinking it would be great if our forgotten brethren in the prison system can get their piece of the pie so to speak...Obama should be campaigning for this all over the country but he knows where his bread is buttered