August 15, 2008
Congress Bans Pell Grants for Sex Offenders
When Rep. Ric Keller, a Florida Republican, read in the St. Petersburg Times in 2003 about a twice-convicted rapist who was receiving Pell Grant money for computer classes, he was appalled. The man, who had served 24 years in prison, had been awarded about $15,000 in Pell Grants since 1999, when he was sentenced to a civil-commitment center intended for sex offenders deemed unready to be set free.
"It was simply crazy that our government was paying taxpayer dollars for locked-up
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