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How Lifting a Federal Ban on Student Aid for Inmates Could Bolster State Economies

January 16, 2019

If Congress ended a decades-old ban on providing financial aid to prison inmates, states could save hundreds of millions of dollars in correctional costs and boost employment rates, according to a study released Wednesday by the Vera Institute of Justice and the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, both nonprofit groups.

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