Michael Santos has been extraordinarily successful in devoting his prison years toward both self-improvement and highly beneficial public service through his publications that are used to educate students throughout the country aboutimprisonment and the criminal justice system. I am not aware of any prisoner who has been more impressive in confronting his misdeeds and then undertaking a single-minded, successful effort at self-improvement over a period of many years beginning with his very first days in the federal prison system.

-Christopher E. Smith, J.D., Ph.D. Professor of Criminal Justice Michigan State University