A Letter to Harold Hammock About Making His Effort Visible

Dear Harold,

I am impressed by the effort you are making to organize your education and vocational records on Prison Professors. Your profile gives people a way to see work that might otherwise remain scattered across certificates, transcripts and personal files.

Your entries describing embroidery-technician training, an apprenticeship and custodial maintenance caught my attention. Your résumé helps connect those records. I also appreciate the care you took to explain that your doctoral studies remain unfinished. Being accurate about both progress and remaining work helps readers understand your preparation.

We have featured your work on the Prison Professors website, and we are also publishing this letter as my public recognition of your effort. I want you to know that the steps you document are being noticed.

Please keep developing your profile. Consider adding a short account of how you have used one of your skills, what you learned from the experience, and what you plan to work on next. A certificate can identify a completed course; your own explanation can help a reader understand what the learning means in your life.

I know the future can be uncertain. Continue focusing on the work within your control and building an accurate record of it. Our mission is to help people prepare as candidates for the highest level of liberty at the soonest possible time. Your continued effort matters to that mission.

Thank you for sharing your work and giving others a reason to begin documenting their own. I look forward to seeing how you continue to build on this record.

With respect,

Michael Santos

Prison Professors

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