Inmates may be coming to a college campus near you? (illegal, Obama)

[texan2yankee]

The Obama administration will give Pell grants to about 12,000 inmates in an effort to help them transition to life after prison — despite a law prohibiting inmates from receiving financial aid under the program.

The $30 million Second Chance Pell Grant program will be available to inmates at 141 state and federal correctional institutions, who will be able to use a federal Pell grant of up to $5,815 to pursue a two- or four-year degree from one of 67 approved colleges and universities.

Pell grants for prisoners: Obama to give inmates a second chance at college


If I was a student, parent of a student, or instructor, having inmates on campus would raise a number of safety concerns for me.

These people did something bad. They may be exemplary inside those walls, but they don’t deserve to get a free ride to college when others who did nothing wrong have to pay for their education.

What do you think of inmates attending college classes with your kids and for free?

[lilyflower3191981]

I don't mind that.

My mom's businesses hired couple of former inmates who happened to be former military. Depends on the individual. Some people deserve a second chance. Second chance in this case means being a productive members of the society again. Did your time, paid your due, move on with your life. Seems fair.

This is a good program, better than most feel good programs, better than starting a war with foreign country did us no harm.

[bklynkenny]

Don't go to one of these 67 colleges then. Based on this article, it sounds like a voluntary program. Colleges aren't being forced to accept them. My guess is these schools are in it for money?

[lycos679]

Kind of a waste imo. It's not like employers are going to hire them. I guess they could go into marketing though.

[schempgo]

Liberal lawmakers love to pass lots of laws (or in this case, break lots of laws) that lead to harm to others. And even though everyone can easily identify what will occur as a result, the same people vehemently deny it. Then, the predicted result occurs and the same people who denied it would happen call it an "unintended consequence" and say "who could have predicted this?" Then, they vow to fix the problem they created by passing another law with more "unintended consequences."

The key, though, is they are never the ones affected. So, your child may have to be around an inmate, but you can bet Malia and Sasha never will. They'll place Syrian refugees in your town, but you can bet they won't be in Washington, D.C. They'll force you to follow Obamacare, but they'll make themselves exempt. None of this is debatable, either. It's fact.

Really, the only way to make them accountable is to physically punish these officials brutally any time their policies harm you. So, if they make a sanctuary city and give you a "what can you do to me" s-eating grin and someone is murdered by an illegal, one of their family members should suffer the same fate. Won't ever happen, but it should.

P.S. All of the people who say this is a great idea are the same way. They're fully in support of this knowing they'll never have to be in a situation where they're affected by the program, so it's effectively "someone else's problem." If anything ever happens as a result of the program they supported, they'll just shrug and say "what can you do?" and offer some phony condolences.

[lilyflower3191981]

I assume they are not all violent offenders or child molesters. Some people deserve a second chance.