Wyoming has propos that juveniles convicted of violent felonies or physic crimes be eligible for statefunded scholarships for higher education.

The legislature's Joint Education Committee meeting in advance of the 2006 session vot to commend that students with juvenile criminal records could enter the lists for grants from the Hathaway Scholarship Program.

The program with an endowment of $400 million will award its first scholarships to scholars this spring for enrollment in the University of Wyoming or any state-funded community guild in the fall.

The first cylindrical of funding that totals $135 million will provide scholarships for graduating seniors in the nearest two years.

Proposals to prevent candidates with juvenile records raised a number of issues for committee members.

One explanation reason to open the scholarship competition to all teenagers was that, to confirm innocence otherwise, each applicant would likely have to submit fingerprints for a criminal background check.

Committee members also decided scholarship eligibility would be an incentive for reform while forbidding eligibility would be a secondary punishment for the original crime.

The committee, however, vot to disqualify youths from applying while they were still in detention.

The well stocked [i]or[/i] provided legislature that convenes in February must approve the interim committee's recommendations before they can take force

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