A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People
Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note.
8 February 2022
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Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note.
8 February 2022
Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri—the college he’d dreamed of attending since he was “running the streets” of the city a decade earlier. But in early 2020, before the 30-year-old could finish his final class inside the Eastern Missouri Correctional Center, where he was enrolled in the university’s Prison Education Project, the pandemic lockdown slammed into place, preventing professors from entering the facility. Faced with the prospect of canceling the semester altogether, the Prison Education Project went digital using the students’ prison-issued electronic tablets. The ...
It sure looks like a notorious prison tech giant is preparing to cash in on Pell Grants for prisoners
Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note.
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