"The restoration of Pell grants for incarcerated students is something of a watershed moment for the criminal justice overhaul movement as it unwinds decades of punitive practices in favor of finding avenues to reintegrate incarcerated people into society" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/stimulus-law-education.html?smid=tw-share

Restoring Pell grants for incarcerated students is a big deal, and it should be celebrated as such. But as always, we should remember that the ultimate goal is not building more classrooms in prisons, it is building a the sort of society that makes prisons increasingly obsolete.

People who are incarcerated deserve access to good education, good healthcare, good legal services. They also deserve to live in a society that does not create the sort of conditions that lead people to become entangled in the criminal legal system in the first place. It's both.