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| For prisoners, Pell Grants are key to college, jobs |
| By chicagotribune.com- Ron Berler |
| Published: 01/25/2016 |
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Should Rob Garite have been eligible for a Pell Grant? Garite was 15 years old on the night in November 1991 he and four teenage toughs lured a 17-year-old Chicago gang member and coke dealer to a remote field in rural Wauconda Township, in northern Illinois. Their intent was robbery. Garite and the elder two of his confederates — one 18, the other 19 — had planned to steal the man's cocaine at gunpoint, sell it, heist a car and drive to Florida. Garite had had a history of arrests, and so had the other older boys. Their robbery attempt went awry. Tensions rose, and Garite shot the dealer once in the head, killing him. The boys buried the body in the field, about 200 feet from where Garite and the two older teens — all three had left home, dropped out of school and passed their days drinking, stealing and drugging — had pitched a tent that served as their occasional home. For three years the murder remained unsolved, the body undiscovered. Then in 1994, one of the older boys was arrested on a fresh charge and, in the hope of gaining a reduced sentence, rolled over on Garite. By then, Garite was a divorced father with a ninth-grade education and no plans to return to school. He had a predilection for substance abuse and fighting, and he held a minimum-wage job at a KFC. He was sentenced to 40 years for murder and sent to prison. In August 2014, after serving 20 years, Garite was paroled. How likely is it that an ex-con like him — a violent felon who entered prison with little education — will make it on the street? And at what price to the rest of us? Read More. |
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