Since 1994, prison inmates have been cut off from getting a four-year college degree while they’re behind bars. That’s when congress eliminated Pell Grants and student loans for prisoners.But a UW-Oshkosh criminology professor is trying to change that.In part four of our Prisoner Reentry series, Gil Halsted reports on the bridge from prison to college…
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