“I read about Gene Scott’s experience with Pell, particularly where his professor informed the class that they were getting ready to go through what’s known as ‘a pendulum factor,’ and that it was swinging away from prisoner rehabilitation. It was the 1994 crime bill passed by Congress that initiated the Pell-stripping swing of the pendulum.
I started looking at a picture of the House of Representatives with ‘the pendulum effect’ in mind. I turned the picture upside down, and there it was! The very same aisle that Democrats and Republicans like to spend so much snarling across. I envisioned the center aisle of the House floor as the pendulum once again swings into the year 2023 with the return of Pell, just as Gene’s professor had predicted. Quite prophetic if you ask me!.”
