SAY "NO" TO FREE COLLEGE FOR PRISONERS

The SAFE Act and now this? We need a new Governor!

I don't agree with giving money to inmates. It should be given to graduate students who earned it and have a future record free.

I am insulted by your proposal to provide free college classes to prisoners. My son attends college and it us extremely difficult for our family to pay together tuition, and the cost of books and supplies. Maybe you should propose free college for hard working families.

Law abiding society don't get free education. Why should prisoners get "free" education?

This is a misuse of state funds. Prisoners are in prison for a reason. It is not for their college education. They need to understand that their choices are the reason they are there. They need to learn how to make better choices in life.

Give law adiding citizens free higher education not inmates. Is he even serious this is a slap in the face of all New Yorkers.

I am not in favor at all ESP with the high tax burden we already face

This is absurd on so many levels!

I sure hope the Prisioners are required to reimburse the State for the thousands of dollars it has spent caring for then while incarcerated!

I am afraid that it will promote crime if it will give them a free education.

Don't prisons have libraries? Get rid of cable TV, and encourage library use. No more handouts at taxpayers expense.

how about we use those tax $ on students to help make college more affordable

Waste of time now that most companies are now doing back ground checks on all potential applicants. Even though "discrimination" is not allowed I can guarentee that they wouldn't get hired due to thier criminal background. A company does not have to tell one why they weren't hired. Waste of money to even try and a waste of my tax money too. Gov. Cuomo needs to give US the working American with no criminal background the $5000.00 towards Educaton as a reward for always giving our taxes to assist people that won't help thierselves.

I paid off all of my college loans.

Someone has rocks in their head, don't know what happened with the brains but really you think the people that work their butts off in this state are going to let this happen, my kids work their butts off doing the right things and they wlll have school loans probably to pay off for a long time and if they get late on their payments because they can't find a job, the state will be there knocking on their door immediately for that money but that's ok let a prisoner get his education for free and maybe end up taking that job from my child, just another reason to run more people out of this state!! Get real!!

Shame on you Cuomo for proposing this ridiculous endeavor. I'm a hard working individual buried in student loans. Prisoners should not be rewarded with a free education by committing a crime.

We are PAYING and have paid THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS - for our 3 children (honor students all) to attend college. It's killing us, financially, and our kids will be paying back student loans for YEARS. Your telling me my tax dollars should fund FREE college educations for CRIMINALS? ARE YOU SERIOUS? How about giving a break to law abiding, working, tax payers? Our middle son is about to get his dual bachelors degree in Physics and Math. He would like to attend graduate school. We can't afford it, because his younger brother starts college next fall. Should I tell him to go knock off the liquor store, and then his college education will be PAID FOR?

i had to pay for my education ....give law abiding people collage first and they will never be criminals....they will have a good paying ...lagit job....stop spending our money Andrew...after the safe act...you will never hold another office

No way ! so many families that are struggling just to find jobs and survive . So many homeless and people starving !

i am a mother of two boys I have worked more then one job at a time since I was 16 years old. I did go to college but had to drop out after a year I did not have the money to go anymore. now I bust my butt everyday and miss out on raising my boys because I have work I can't get a better job cause I did not finish college but u will pay for college to someone who has done wrong. is it my fault as a tax payer that they Have to sit in jail NO. it is called don't get put in jail in the first place. and I don't wanna hear well I had a hard life or I was poor well guess what so was I my dad died when I was four and my mom is still alone 24 years later but not once have I done anything to go to jail. how about we send people to college who need to better there life but can't cause they don't have the money not the ones who messed up