Congress hasn’t changed its mind, but at the urging of advocates, the Department of Education under former President Barack Obama greenlit a pilot program in 2015 that extended Pell grants to thousands of prison inmates. The program is set to expire at the end of 2018. Its future is now uncertain.
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