Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. This trend reversed sharply with the passage of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned people in prisons from Pell access.
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