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(ELLSWORTH, Kan.) -- For the first time in decades, prison inmates are eligible for the Pell Grant, a federal financial aid program that helps low-income students receive a college education. Simon Garcia, 34, who graduated college last November from a state prison in Ellsworth, Kansas, is just one of the people whose life was changed due
For the first time in decades, prison inmates are eligible for the Pell Grant, a federal financial aid program that helps low-income students recei...
For the first time in decades, prison inmates are eligible for the Pell Grant, a federal financial aid program that helps low-income students recei...
Story by Maggie HarrisPhoto by Joe VinduskaThis past October, an ABC
The grant will help create a Prison to Careers Equity Pathway program at the school that will link the graduates with regional employers and community organizations, according to the university.