The federal government is shelling out $130 million to bring free college to about 30,000 inmates in places like Folsom Prison
The new expansion of the Pell Grant program overturns a 1994 ban on them for prisoners.
The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men appeared to hoots and cheers from their families. They marched…