Prison Professors

Podcast 124: Earning Freedom with Michael Santos Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term   I'm reading from chapter six of Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term, by Michael Santos. In this reading, we're covering chapter Six: 1992-1995 Months 62-84   It's Thanksgiving, 1992, just before my sixth holiday season in prison. Despite the forbidden affair I've been carrying on with Sarah for the pa...

I'm reading from chapter five of Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term, by Michael Santos. It's the story of my prison journey. For a full copy, visit PrisonProfessors.com   Months 58-62 Since I received the divorce papers from Lisa, my interactions with women have been limited to Ms. Stephens, my work supervisor, and Susan, my friend from high school with whom I've had an ongoing, fri...

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I'm reading from chapter 4 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. For more information, please visit PrisonProfessors.com EF 4.3 /  Chapter Four: 1990-1992 Months 37-57 ******* I'm excited to see Bruce, my mentor. He's a bear of a man, big in every way, and through our correspondence we've built a friendship that has deepened. I look forward to our weekly exchange of mail a...

I'm reading from chapter 4 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. For more information, please visit PrisonProfessors.com Chapter Four: 1990-1992 /  Months 37-57 ******* A week later I'm sitting on the lower rack when a guard flicks an envelope beneath my door. I lean over to pick up the envelope and read "University of North Carolina" on the return address. For a moment I...

I'm reading from chapter 4 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. For more information, please visit PrisonProfessors.com Chapter Four: 1990-1992 / Months 37-57 Contractors complete the remodel of B cellblock and I join the 600 prisoners who were confined with me in A cellblock for our relocation. It's not far from the old housing block to the new one, just across the polis...

I'm reading from chapter 3 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com ******* When I call home on May 27, 1989, I hear the news from Julie that Christina has given birth to a daughter, Isabella. I've known of Christina's pregnancy for some time, but I've been too wrapped up in dealing with the loss of Lisa and the challenges of my...

I'm reading from chapter 3 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term Podcast 118: Chapter 3.3   ******* It's 1988 and Vice-President George H.W. Bush is about to become America's 41st president. He talks about a thousand points of light and inspires me with his call for a kinder, gentler America. Yes!  More compassion and understanding is exactly what I need, and I'm working fe...

I'm reading from chapter 3 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com ******* During my first weeks in the penitentiary, I meet hundreds of men.  Listening to them convinces me that it's best to keep a low profile, at least until I understand more about my environment. I don't even talk much with the other men assigned to my cell....

I'm reading from chapter 3 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com Chapter Three: 1988-1990 Months 14-36 I'm assigned to A cellblock.  It's a long, rectangular, hollow shell of a building with high ceilings similar to the Oklahoma housing unit I just left at El Reno. Pigeons fly around in the open space above. It's late summer...

In the #Straight-A-Guide #reentryplan, we feature stories of people who used time in prison to #prepareforsuccessafterprison. Learn how @TheArthurDuncan became a lawyer. https://prisonprofessors.com/reentry-programs/

People in jail or prison may learn about the livestock industry or job opportunities on a farm by listening to our lesson with Rene, an expert horse breeder.

Podcast 115: Earning Freedom with Michael Santos Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term (2.3) For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com ******* With the exchange of prisoners complete we leave the corporate jets behind and fly east. Eventually I deplane and board a bus with other prisoners. We ride through the busy streets of Atlanta and as I look at the glass-faced skyscrapers, the places of com...

Earning Freedom with Michael Santos Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term (1.2)   I'm reading from chapter 2 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term   For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com         Podcast 114: Earning Freedom 2.2   ******* Following the chapel service I return to my cell where I catch the guy assigned to the rack below me. He's in his 40s and not partic...

I'm reading from chapter 2 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com Month 13 The court paid my public defender, Justin, to represent me after I cut ties with Raymond.  Now that I've been sentenced, however, I'm without much access to legal counsel.  Justin will prepare a direct appeal, but he won't be available to help me unders...

I'm reading from chapter 1 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com Podcast 112: Earning Freedom 1.3 ******* The marshals escort four of us in chains through the working areas of the post office. I see postal clerks eying us suspiciously as they sort the mail into large bags while we wait for an elevator to take us to the courth...

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111. Earning Freedom with Michael Santos   Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term (1.2)   I'm reading from chapter 1 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term   For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com         ******* "¿Que Onda?" Another man is locked in the same cell. Cuban, I presume from his accent. He stands by a waist-high metal locker in boxer shorts, staring at me. He...

101. Earning Freedom with Michael Santos   Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term (1.1)   I'm reading from chapter 1 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term   For more information, visit PrisonProfessors.com         I can feel the DEA agents waiting. I don't know where or when they'll strike, but I know they're near. I've never been arrested before, and I'm scared. My wife, Lisa, s...

Sometimes people make bad decisions that lead them to prison. To #prepareforsuccessafterprison, a person could create a self-directed #reentryplan, like the #Straight-A-Guide. https://prisonprofessors.com/reentry-programs/

We feature stories on how to #prepareforsuccessafterprison with our self-directed #reentryplan that we call our #Straight-A-Guide. https://prisonprofessors.com/reentry-programs/