A person going into the criminal justice system should start thinking about preparing for success early. When a person prepares early, that individual can:

• Create a plan.
• Put priorities in place.
• Develop tools, tactics, and resources.
• Create accountability metrics.
• Adhere to a deliberate, intentional adjustment strategy that will lead to a better outcome.

My name is Michael Santos, and I’m the founder of Prison Professors. Every day we create new digital content to help justice-impacted people work toward better outcomes at every stage in the process. Check out our complete course on Preparing for Success after Prison. Resources include:

• Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term
• Prison: My 8,344th Day
• Success after Prison
• Preparing for Success after Prison Workbook

Through those books, justice-impacted people see an authentic example of all that follows when a person uses time in prison to prepare for success.

It’s never too early, and it’s never too late, to begin preparing for success after prison.

From August 11, 1987, through August 12, 2013, I lived in federal prisons of every security level as number 16377-004. During my journey of 9,500 days in prison, I learned from leaders that include:

• Socrates
• Nelson Mandela
• Viktor Frankl
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Bill Gates
• Steve Jobs
• Jack Welch

With this workbook and course, I share the strategies those leaders taught. Anyone in prison can use these same strategies to prepare for a better outcome.