Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How Michael G. Santos Survived a 45-Year Prison Sentence
18 Nov 2024
Michael G. Santos from Prison Professors.com share his story on how he overcame a 45 year prison sentence. Michael's Website https://prisonprofessors.com Follow me on all socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrime Do you want to be a guest? Send me an email here: [email protected] Do you want a custom "con man" painting to shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to my Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/insidetruecrime Do you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCF Bent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TM It's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8 Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5G Devil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438 The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3K Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade? (waiting for KDP approval) Bailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402 Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel! Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WX If you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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So I made just a series of really bad decisions as a kid. And by the time all things were said and done, the judge sentenced me to 45 years in federal prison. And then instead of accepting responsibility and expressing remorse, I made the bad decision of hiring an attorney that I thought could really help me lie and cheat my way out of it.
So it was the right amount of money you could win is basically what my attorney told me. And I said, let's go. Later I went to prison and I became a reader and read about people that went through the Holocaust or people like Nelson Mandela or Viktor Frankl and Malcolm X and all these people that transformed their life while they were in prison. really gave me a pathway to make it.
And I had a path. And so I found ways to create a pathway to liberty, even while living in a high security penitentiary, which was exciting for me.
hey this is matt cox and i appreciate you guys uh checking out the channel i am going to be doing an interview with michael santos and he is the youtube prison professor and he does uh uh videos uh in sorry videos he have podcasts in and that are connected to various prisons and he's got a really interesting story and i'm check out the video so what so listen so you did like
a ridiculous amount of time in prison. And so, yeah. Um, so what, so the, you know, what ended up getting you to this? What was your sentence?
So I, I made a, you know, just a series of really bad decisions as a kid. And when I, by the time all things were said and done, the judge sentenced me to 45 years in federal prison.
Damn. But that was under the old law where you were able to get parole, right?
Actually, yes, I was under the old law, but I went to trial. Jury convicted me of committing an 848. I think it's Title 21, Section 848, which is the Kingpin Statute. I was trafficking in cocaine. Long story behind that. But because I had the 848, that was one of the few sentences under the old law that was not eligible for parole. So I had a 45-year sentence. I served every day of that sentence.
And, you know, it's all good.
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