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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Mar 31, 2014, 07:27 PM Mar 2014

Plan for state to fund prison college education courses dies in budget talks...

Plan for state to fund prison college education courses dies in budget talks, Cuomo administration source says

KEN LOVETT

Two weeks after the state DREAM Act failed to pass the Senate, a plan to provide college education courses to prison inmates has also died.

A Cuomo administration source said there was heavy opposition in budget talks within the Legislature to the plan. Senate Republicans widely opposed the measure first proposed by Cuomo several weeks ago at a conference of black, Hispanic and Puerto Rican lawmakers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/plan-state-fund-prison-college-education-courses-dies-budget-talks-cuomo-administration-source-blog-entry-1.1740865

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Plan for state to fund prison college education courses dies in budget talks... (Original Post) hrmjustin Mar 2014 OP

We can afford to house them now and after recidivism, but we can in no way afford to help Ed Suspicious Mar 2014 #1

I think Cuomo did not expect the opposition to it in the state. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #2

Ed Suspicious

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1. We can afford to house them now and after recidivism, but we can in no way afford to help

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 07:31 PM

Mar 2014

them aquire the tools that might keep them from coming back to prison.

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. I think Cuomo did not expect the opposition to it in the state.

Reply to Ed Suspicious (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 31, 2014, 07:33 PM

Mar 2014

And he really didn't fight for it.

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