Carolynne Noffsinger-06/01/2025
Today I spent a lot of time drafting ideas for the current US Attorney General, POTUS and other elected officials to improve the justice system. I am also hoping you will share these ideas as well with others whom you see fit that would help us. 1. The BOP has expressed and proven in many […]
Elzie Isley-06/01/2025
The way you used the word onus leads me to believe it means something like personal responsibility. That would be my first guess. Although I will look it up later to see for sure. I know how I can earn academic credentials in prison. Although they make it extremely difficult to do so. I am […]
Michael Santos-The Advantage
I received an invitation to participate in a graduation ceremony at the Folsom State Prison, in California. I looked forward to the meeting and wanted to encourage the people in the audience to make a commitment to lifelong learning. By reading, I explained, anyone could develop new skills that would open more opportunities for success […]
Michael Santos-Rebuilding after Prison
I spoke with Michael yesterday. He is rebuilding his life after serving three years in a minimum-security federal camp. He reached out for a conversation, and I asked him permission to record so that others could learn from what we discussed. A Background of Lessons Learned During our call, Michael expressed some of the […]
The Rhino-05/31/2025-What My Wife Would Say…
Waited my whole life for the opportunity to meet the “right one” – the proper man to take as my husband and start a family…GOD finally gave him to me name – we go tpgether perfectly…as we became best friends taveled snd explored places. We arent perfect. But we’re perfect. We fell in love, then […]
Fernando Cordova-05/31/2025
Another month has gone by and I continue to learn all I can and more about myself and what I need to work on. This is one thing I have never done and I need to start doing. I want to apologize to my victim’s family, especially his mother for taking the life of her […]
Michael Santos-Our Mission
My name is Mike. I’m not going to give my full name because I’m still in the halfway house. The Bureau of Prisons released me earlier this May after I served an 84-month sentence for a white-collar case. While serving my sentence, I met Michael Santos, founder of Prison Professors, a nonprofit. He told the […]
Alex Dee-05/31/2025-Journal #13: The story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz
Dear Azy, Rumi, and Ari, Today I’m going to tell you a story about loyalty, being faithful to God, bravery, kindness, and love. Naomi was an Israelite who moved with her husband and her two sons to Moab when Israel experienced a famine. Then her two sons got married. Unfortunately, her husband died and her […]
Dennis Zeedyk-05/31/2025
On Wednesday evening, the FBOP issued a press release entitled “FBOP Issues Directive to Expand Home Confinement, Advance First Step Act (You can find it on the BOP website). As you can imagine, there was a great amount of discussion at Unicor on Thursday morning where people were more carefully reading it when they first […]
Michael Santos-Artificial Intelligence & You
If you’re facing challenges with the criminal justice system, start using Artificial Intelligence together with all the content available on our website at Prison Professors. It’s free. I’m Michael Santos. I’m always striving to find new ways to make sense of the 26 years that I served in prison. The Prison Professors’ nonprofit exists to […]
