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01744aam a2200265 4500 001 5CCCEF446D2E11ECB3EC20C24FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220104011630 020 $a 9781642939408 020 $a 1642939404 040 $d SILO 100 $a Andrisse, Stanley 245 $a From prison cells to PhD : $b It is never too late to do good 264 1 $a Ny $b Post Hill Press $c 2021 300 $a 381 pages 520 $a Growing up in Ferguson, Missouri, Stanley Andrisse began making poor decisions at a very young age. He started selling dope and was arrested for the first time at fourteen years old. By his early twenties, dope dealing had exponentially multiplied, and he found himself sitting in front of a judge facing twenty years to life on drug trafficking charges. The judge sentenced him to ten years in a maximum-security prison. 520 $a Prison was an experience like none other hed ever encountered. While challenged with a strong desire for self-renewal, he faced an environment that was not conducive for transformative change. From poor institutional structure and policies to individual institutionalized thinking and behaviors, he battled on a daily basis to retain and maintain his humanity. 520 $a Upon release, and after several rejections, Stanley was accepted into a PhD program. He completed his PhD/MBA simultaneously and became an endocrinologist and impactful leader at Johns Hopkins Medicine, specializing in diabetes research. 650 $a Decision making 650 $a Emotions 650 $a Prisons 008 s2021 941 $a 1 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20220104014140.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5CCCEF446D2E11ECB3EC20C24FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search