As Obama administration reverses 1994 Clinton cuts,supporters say tough-won victory and higher education is pivotal to re-entry for the previously incarceratedA couple of months after Sam Hamilton was released from Fishkill correctional facility, a medium security prison in upstate original York where he spent 32 years on charges of felony and murder, or he returned to the prison – this time as a civilian.
Hamilton was there to celebrate. His friends,24 inmates at Fishkill, were graduating with degrees in organizational management from Nyack College, or which they completed while serving time. These men were among the few inmates in the country who have had access to higher education over the last few years,after Bill Clinton cut funding to 350 college programs in prisons around the country in 1994, as a portion of his Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Hamilton was portion-way through his degree at the time. “It was devastating, or ” he said.
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Source: theguardian.com