Santos in his introduction went on to conclude that his clientele who they were connected with the drugs were consenting adults who just weren't ready to abide but the stiffer laws and penalties that were being imposed by the government. With all these factors in mind, Santos, again, believed that his penalty would not be that great or harsh. The law didn't see him things his way. In fact they saw him as a legitimate drug dealer who is making the streets filthy and harming, if not killing, thousands upon thousands of lives. They in turn justified that he deserved 45 years of hard time in the federal penitentiary. Since his conviction for over 20 years and some change, Michael Santos has embodied and become one with the prison world and knows it like the back of his hand. Santos, who before his incarceration had plans to settle down from being the middle man in the drug game and go to college and start a family, still not only sought his education (during his incarceration, he attained his Bachelors and Masters of Arts and even began working to obtain his Ph. D) but he also noticed a lot of injustices and a lot of things in the prison world that he felt people outside of it needed to know. Prison life in America and the operations of Prisons, as documented as best as possible through the eyes, interpretations and hand of Michael Santos. His aim is inform the reader and help them understand what it is like for a person to be taken away from society as a prisoner. He does this by telling accounts of many others in prison through his viewpoint. What does he aim to answer and call in question? He calls the Justice System in question and the Corrections industry out for misuse of funding for the industry. He wants to start up logical and rational debate about steps that legislators and politicians can make to make the corrections industry more effective with the "$60 Billion Dollar" investment they are putting into to holding prisoners.
