focus your education efforts to earlier ed institutionsfor PREVENTION of crime. Do not reward criminals with free college educations. We taxpaying contributors to society are being killed by student loans!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Helen
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JoAnn Smart
12 years ago
This is absolutely ridiculous! I couldn't afford to go to college and I didn't become a criminal! Why is it that the people who work their whole lives are the ones always paying, not being able to get the breaks! This makes me so angry!
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Robert McAndrews
12 years ago
This is just a dumb idea this can't be put into action! It must be stopped
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Anonymous
12 years ago
First help the struggling students who can't pay defaulted loans and can't get any job.
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Janine Attardo Bowen
12 years ago
No way!!! When middle class and lower class get free tuition then think about it!!!
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Linda Brogan
12 years ago
So I'm better off committing a crime so in turn I can get my teeth fixed ...no dental insurance...I can finish college like I've always wanted to ...can't afford to on my own...I have shelter ...food...I can workout all day instead of working...then I get too watch some TV ....surf the internet . Are you kidding me ?
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Jean M Walsh
12 years ago
This just goes to show you how backwards this country has become. We treat criminals better than hard working people who are struggling just to get by. They have cable tv, 3 square meals a day, medical and dental. Maybe we should all just go out and commit a crime so that we can lay around all day long and get a college education for FREE. This is just obsurd.
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Dean VanSkiver
12 years ago
Why would I want my tax dollars to pay for a prisoner to go to college when my own family, myself included could never afford to get a degree.
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Judy Cleveland
12 years ago
So many are struggling, juggling, jobs and work to get through college. They are doing the right thing. Why not use that money to help them. Prison are for punishment not for recreation, free education degrees, free medical.. Many criminals have it made in there. It is a shame. New York has so many positives to enhance and they choose to enhance prison programs for people being there for doing wrong. What is the lesson we take from this.....?
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Another Reason to leave NY. Convicts have more rights than law abiding citizens!
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Linda Brogan
12 years ago
My husband and I have two sons to put through college. Help the law abiding tax payers not the criminals. This is so ignorant..
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Linda I Sweet
12 years ago
We do not owe prisoners anything. They knew the risks when they committed the crime. They already have food and shelter as well as better medical and dental care than we do. This is disgusting. And what do we the hard working underpaid American tax payers get? I say no and no again as the bible says you reap what you sow if they can earn the wage to pay for collage fine but we are better than they are that's why we aren't in prison do not treat them better than we are treated. People will become prisoners for the benefits . Let god take care of this.
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Adam Benzel
12 years ago
Simply ridiculous!!!! Cuomo is becoming quite a joke lately!! I mean who can possibly support this? Free education for criminals?
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Judith Ogle
12 years ago
We should worry about honest hard working families first,not reward criminals!!!
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Kim Weins
12 years ago
How about giving students with C+ & above average in high school 5,000 tuition to SUNY?! Prisoners can work their way out i.e. cleaning streets, lots, raise thier own food, etc.
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Lindsey Perry
12 years ago
When these inmates get their college degree and are released what jobs are they going to find? Taking away money from the law abiding NYSE residents and taking the jobs they are trying to find? What a disgrace and a travesty Governor Cuomo!
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Debbie Marguccio
12 years ago
NO...NO...NO...NO...NO... The prison inmates are there for punishment only !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Brenda Allen
12 years ago
NONONONONO
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Anonymous
12 years ago
ABSOLUTELY against this idiotic idea. Give the CO's a raise with the money instead. (I am not a CO, by the way.)
focus your education efforts to earlier ed institutionsfor PREVENTION of crime. Do not reward criminals with free college educations. We taxpaying contributors to society are being killed by student loans!
Helen
This is absolutely ridiculous! I couldn't afford to go to college and I didn't become a criminal! Why is it that the people who work their whole lives are the ones always paying, not being able to get the breaks! This makes me so angry!
This is just a dumb idea this can't be put into action! It must be stopped
First help the struggling students who can't pay defaulted loans and can't get any job.
No way!!! When middle class and lower class get free tuition then think about it!!!
So I'm better off committing a crime so in turn I can get my teeth fixed ...no dental insurance...I can finish college like I've always wanted to ...can't afford to on my own...I have shelter ...food...I can workout all day instead of working...then I get too watch some TV ....surf the internet . Are you kidding me ?
This just goes to show you how backwards this country has become. We treat criminals better than hard working people who are struggling just to get by. They have cable tv, 3 square meals a day, medical and dental. Maybe we should all just go out and commit a crime so that we can lay around all day long and get a college education for FREE. This is just obsurd.
Why would I want my tax dollars to pay for a prisoner to go to college when my own family, myself included could never afford to get a degree.
So many are struggling, juggling, jobs and work to get through college. They are doing the right thing. Why not use that money to help them. Prison are for punishment not for recreation, free education degrees, free medical.. Many criminals have it made in there. It is a shame. New York has so many positives to enhance and they choose to enhance prison programs for people being there for doing wrong. What is the lesson we take from this.....?
Another Reason to leave NY. Convicts have more rights than law abiding citizens!
My husband and I have two sons to put through college. Help the law abiding tax payers not the criminals. This is so ignorant..
We do not owe prisoners anything. They knew the risks when they committed the crime. They already have food and shelter as well as better medical and dental care than we do. This is disgusting. And what do we the hard working underpaid American tax payers get? I say no and no again as the bible says you reap what you sow if they can earn the wage to pay for collage fine but we are better than they are that's why we aren't in prison do not treat them better than we are treated. People will become prisoners for the benefits . Let god take care of this.
Simply ridiculous!!!! Cuomo is becoming quite a joke lately!! I mean who can possibly support this? Free education for criminals?
We should worry about honest hard working families first,not reward criminals!!!
How about giving students with C+ & above average in high school 5,000 tuition to SUNY?! Prisoners can work their way out i.e. cleaning streets, lots, raise thier own food, etc.
When these inmates get their college degree and are released what jobs are they going to find? Taking away money from the law abiding NYSE residents and taking the jobs they are trying to find? What a disgrace and a travesty Governor Cuomo!
NO...NO...NO...NO...NO... The prison inmates are there for punishment only !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NONONONONO
ABSOLUTELY against this idiotic idea. Give the CO's a raise with the money instead. (I am not a CO, by the way.)