The 1994 Crime Act also included some particularly callous provisions aimed, it seemed, at cruelty for the sake of tough-on-crime politics. It allowed juveniles as young as thirteen to be tried as adults in federal court for certain violent crimes and crimes involving guns. It also ended college funding for the incarcerated by making them ineligible for Pell grants. The last measure even drew the ire of conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, who called the elimination of Pell grants for prisoners an act of “grandstanding and chest-thumping” by “Sheriff Clinton” and a Congress full
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