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Incarcerated graduates, who finished their bachelor's degree program in communications through the Transforming Outcomes Project at Sacramento State (TOPSS), extend their pinky fingers during their graduation ceremony at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, Calif., Thursday, May 25, 2023. Many more prisoners will have opportunities to leave prison with bachelor's degrees when new federal rules on financial aid for higher education take effect in July. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The new rules, which overturn a 1994 ban on Pell Grants for prisoners, begin to address decades of policy during the "tough on crime" 1970s-2000 that brought about mass incarceration and stark racial disparities in the nation's 1.9 million prison population.
Originally published at The Associated Press