“Where Is the Refund Going?”: Second Chance Pell
Recipient Perceptions of Federal Student Aid
Author(s): Gaskill, S., Castro, E. L., & Aguilar Padilla, E.
Publisher: Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison
Year: 2022
Description
Launched in 2015, the Second Chance Pell Experiment has allowed a select number of
institutions of
higher education to provide Pell grants to incarcerated students. To date, much of
what is known about
the implementation and impact of Second Chance Pell comes from the perspective of
non-incarcerated
practitioners. This research brief draws on focus groups conducted by the Research
Collaborative on
Higher Education in Prison at the University of Utah with incarcerated students and
formerly incarcerated alumni of prison higher education programs. The larger project
from which these data are drawn, Exploring the Experiences Participants in Second
Chance Pell, is a mixed methods research study examining the implementation and facilitation
of the Second Chance Pell Experiment.