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Masked, heavily armed ICE agents continue to detain people in spaces that should be safe for everyone. This MUST stop. Add your name to help get ICE out of our communities: secure.vera.org/a/stand-up-t...

Since the launch of the Second Chance Pell Experimental Sites Initiative (SCP) in 2016, more than 45,000 incarcerated students have enrolled in SCP programs. Today, there are more than 750,000 people in prison eligible to enroll in a postsecondary program.

Giving people access to Pell Grants—need-based financial aid for college coursework— while they are behind bars could make a huge difference to the communities they return to. Access to college in prison can help fill employment gaps and end the cycle of incarceration for many.

The harsh conditions within jails and prisons do not create safe outcomes for our communities. Diversion programs instead center people’s needs with the goals of reducing incarceration rates, protecting public safety, and promoting healthy communities.

In addition to using private and federal detention facilities, ICE pays local governments to use jails to hold people who are facing civil immigration charges. This practice is so widespread that local jails comprise the most common type of ICE detention facility. #ImmigrantRights

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