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Restoring Financial Aid to People with Drug Convictions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the NAACP: RESTORING FINANCIAL AID TO MINOR DRUG OFFENDERS On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), our nation?s oldest, largest and most widely-recognized grassroots civil rights organization, I strongly urge you to support a repeal of current law that says that if you need some financial help in order to go to college, one drug conviction can make you temporarily ineligible, and multiple convictions may lead to a permanent bar on receiving aid. Specifically, I hope that you will use the opportunity of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to overturn this ill-conceived and detrimental provision. While the goal of this law, to ensure that drug dealers do not set up shop on our nations college campuses with federal backing, was laudable, the result is in fact racially and economically discriminatory and adversely impacts tens of thousands of lower-income young adults...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).