Federal Grants Offer Idaho Prison Students a Second Chance at College Education

Sean Carnell, who grew up in Boise, never saw himself pursuing a college ... Obama administration reinstated access to Pell Grants for incarcerated individuals as studies began to show that prison ... Read More

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A new ABC News and IPSOS poll shows an uptick in Americans saying the U.S. is doing too much to support Israel, compared to January. Read More

‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons

When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to ... Read More

CDCR sues to restore punishment for prison guard who used tear gas on 2 inmates

During the incident, two inmates rushed to attack a third. Though the men ultimately never harmed the third inmate and proceeded to get down on the ground as ordered, one guard threw a tear gas ... Read More

Boston College launches prison education program

are the first cohort in Boston College’s newly launched Prison Education Program, which brings college-level liberal arts courses to inmates. Launched with generous support from an anonymous donor, ... Read More

US senators demand answers on closure plan for California women's prison where inmates were sexually abused

U.S. senators are demanding accountability for the rapid closure plan of a troubled women's prison in California where sexual abuse by guards was rampant. Read More

Pot inmates call out Biden for saying he’d free them ahead of another 4/20 in prison

Four inmates told The Post the 81-year-old ... of whom none were in prison. “When a political candidate ignores the social issues of his constituents, he is destined to lose,” said Edwin ... Read More

Zimbabwe grants clemency to over 4,000 prisoners, some of whom were sentenced to death

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who ... to life in prison under the amnesty. Zimbabwe has more than 60 inmates on death row. Read More

Dismas dinner to feature speaker, author on college for inmates

McDevitt earned his master’s degree from Notre Dame and is currently working toward his doctorate in political science ... programs for people in prison and what the U.S. can learn from other ... Read More

Federal grants offer Idaho prison students a second chance at college education

(Mia Maldonado / Idaho Capital Sun) Sean Carnell, who grew up in Boise, never saw himself pursuing a college education. He was sentenced to prison ... Obama administration reinstated access to ... Read More

Federal grants offer Idaho prison students a second chance at college education

Sean Carnell, who grew up in Boise, never saw himself pursuing a college education. He was sentenced to prison on battery and robbery charges in 2013 — where he later received his GED. Read More