Mass Incarceration Is A Failed Experiment with Prison Professors' Michael Santos
The Southern Tea
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Lindsie is joined by the founder of Prison Professors, Michael Santos. While serving a 45 year sentence for a white collar crime Michael made a commitment to work towards prison reform and has continued to provide resources to anyone impacted unfairly by the prison system. Michael shares his various experiences throughout the years within the prison system, how prison camps need to be abolished, how he met his business partner Justin Paperny, the touching story of meeting his wife, and the system wide changes that he hopes to make.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe I'm just like weird, maybe I'm crunchy. |
| 0:03.6 | This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Crisley. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their |
| 0:11.0 | children's accomplishments on the back. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't love them. |
| 0:13.8 | A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying true to her roots. |
| 0:18.8 | I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now. |
| 0:22.8 | Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea. |
| 0:28.6 | That is the tea. |
| 0:30.2 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 0:34.6 | Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. |
| 0:39.0 | Today I have a very special guest, Michael Santos, with prison professors. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm going to give a little bit of background on Michael and who he is. |
| 0:49.4 | This is a self-written bio. |
| 0:53.4 | Correct me if anything has changed. |
| 0:56.4 | I am a person that learned many lessons on overcoming struggle. |
| 1:00.4 | As a young man, I made bad decisions. |
| 1:03.0 | As a result, I served 26 years in prison from 1987 to 2013. |
| 1:08.8 | I prepared every day. |
| 1:10.6 | While in prison, I earned a university degree, published books, built a record of authenticity. |
| 1:17.2 | Upon release, I set a goal of building various businesses now through prison professors. |
| 1:22.2 | I create courses to teach strategies. |
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