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'More than what we were': First graduates of Cal State LA's pioneering prison education program will walk the stage at Commencement


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LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Inside a classroom at a prison in Los Angeles County, incarcerated men embark on a journey.
When they step inside the classroom, the men are no longer just incarcerated. They are more than the mistakes they ve made. More than society s view of them. More than their inmate number.
The first graduating classes of students from Cal State LA s Prison Graduation Initiative will walk the Commencement stage on July 28. Back row from left: Daniel Whitlow; Duncan Martinez; Taffany Lim, executive director for the Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good; Tin Nguyen; Charlie Praphatananda and Allen Burnett. Front row from left: Clifton Gibson, Bradley Arrowood and Jeff Stein. (Credit: Robert Huskey/Cal State LA) ....

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Incarcerated Californians Can Soon Get Federal Aid For College. But Students Beware


Incarcerated Californians will soon be able to apply for federal Pell Grants to pay for higher education, a move with support across the political spectrum. The change was tucked into the omnibus spending bill signed into law in late December.
Pell Grants, which are the largest source of federally-funded college aid, have been off limits to incarcerated students since 1994, part of the crime bill that also led to mass incarceration.
The change is incredibly exciting, said Keramet Reiter, who directs a new UC Irvine program that will offer the University of California s first bachelor s degree for incarcerated students. She started teaching in prisons in the late 1990s, when the end of Pell Grants led to a drastic decline in higher education offerings for incarcerated people. ....

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