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SAY "NO" TO FREE COLLEGE FOR PRISONERS

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Sarah Jones
12 years ago

This is fucking ridiculous. The fact that im going to have yo pay 10 grand a semester for being a lawful citizen and someone who is in jail for like murdering someone gets yo go to college for free is ludicrous.

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Dawn Grant
12 years ago

They are already getting everything free. Tax papers are paying for them to sit on their backside and do nothing. That is why so many are repeat offenders. If you are offering free college give it to the people that worked hard in school and thoses adults that have worked hard in the world, who want to better themselves. Also look at helping thoses who have high student loans to pay back and are having a hard time because of no jobs or low paying ones. Pay theirs off.

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colleen steinwandel
12 years ago

No to free college for prisoners, it's bad enough they already get all the free health care on the tax payers

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R. Thomas Weeks
12 years ago

This is absurd.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

i worked and so did my kids and husband to pay for college they have forfeited their rights by being in prision and i don't feel that i need to pay for them

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Why should they get it for free, when I owe 45,000 in student loans for a job I don't even have. So NO

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Louise F. Sweet
12 years ago

We sacrificed so that our children could go to college. There are so many children deserving of an advanced education who cannot afford to get one. It is unconscionable that lawbreakers in prison could receive a FREE college education while law-abiding citizens have to struggle to get one. I am oppoted to this legislation!!

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Ross Christopher
12 years ago

I voted against Cuomo in his successful bid for NYS Governor and will always vote against him..

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Courtney silsby
12 years ago

We need to change the focus of our system from punishment this will help lower recidivism rates. A cocaine addict that recieves a college education will be able to cope with his addiction after an associates degree instead of drug rehabilitation?

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Anonymous
12 years ago

how ridiculous! local 7-11's better be careful, more crime for free college!

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wendy verrall
12 years ago

hell...im a law abiding citizens so I HAVE to pay for college..but if I go to jail..my education is free...only in america...wtf..no way

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Donna M Suozzi
12 years ago

Disgusting, this man is out of his mind

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Krystal Labarge
12 years ago

This is the most unfair thing I've ever heard!

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Gary E. Huber
12 years ago

use money to better our schools not prisons

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Rose Frances Meiler
12 years ago

A petition I fully support. Thank.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

"NO" to free college for prisoners

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Sarah mastrovito
12 years ago

It's not fair to hard working citizens like me that had to pay for college and it will most likely take the rest of my life to pay it back.

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Charles Abramo
12 years ago

I am not a criminal and will be in debt for decades to pay off my college loans. Give me the money!

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Lucille G. White
12 years ago

The Governor's must have lost his mind; He is telling people that if you commit a crime your educatiion will be paid for; we have kids that need funds for college; and he is proposing this.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Until you can find a way to give free college Ed to law abiding citizens no free ride to inmates