Will you take one minute to email your senators in support of Pell Grants for students in state and federal prisons?

Email Your Senators

Congress is close to restoring Pell Grant access to people in prisons for the first time in decades. College education for incarcerated students would provide chances for amazing personal growth, make our prisons and communities safer, and help people find jobs and stay crime-free when they go home.

That's why FAMM believes that we need to end the current ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students.

On July 31, the House of Representatives voted to restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students as part of a funding bill, H.R. 7617. This bill will be considered in the U.S. Senate in the next few months. Another bipartisan bill, the REAL Act (S. 1074), introduced by Sens. Schatz, Lee, and Durbin, would restore Pell Grant eligibility to provide people in prison access to higher education.

These bills give us two bites at the apple to bring affordable college education back into prisons — but we can’t do it without your help.

Email your U.S. Senators today and urge them to support Pell Grant reinstatement in federal and state prisons!

Email Your Senators

Thanks for your support of all the work that we do, everywhere!

Best,

Molly Gill
Vice President of Policy, FAMM