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Increasing Public Safety by Restoring Voting Rights

The studies featured in this brief from the Sentencing Project underscore the beneficial impacts of restoring voting rights for all Americans who have...

Eligibility of Confined or Incarcerated Individuals to Receive Pell Grants

The FAFSA Simplification Act (the Act), signed into law in December 2020, restored Pell Grant eligibility to individuals who are confined or incarce...

Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach

This online article from USA Today discusses the expansion of Pell Grants that were eliminated in the 1994 crime bill for people in prison and ended t...

Register Now for Second Chance Month 2023 Webinars

During Second Chance Month 2023, the National Reentry Resource Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Office of Juven...

Voting Rights Briefs for 13 States

The Sentencing Project is committed to expanding voting rights in every state and works with state partners to provide data on state felony disenfranc...

U.S. Department of Education Releases Final Rules to Protect Veterans and Service Members, Support Students Who Are Incarcerated, and Improve Oversight

The U.S. Department of Education has announced final rules that the Department contends will better protect veterans and service members...

Fact Sheet: Changes to Protect Veterans, Students, and Taxpayers and Support Incarcerated Students

In October 2022, the U.S. Department of Education published final regulations for the federal Pell Grant program that promote accountabili...

Second Chance Act Reentry Education and Employment Factsheet

This factsheet from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provides information on the following three current Second Chance Act (SCA) investme...

Fighting Chances

This blogpost from Homeroom, the official blog of the U.S. Department of Education, highlights Damian Archer, one of the first recipients in Maine of ...

U.S. Department of Education Announces Expansion of Second Chance Pell Experiment

This press release, from the U.S. Department of Education, highlights actions the Department has taken to help incarcerated individuals access educati...

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