# 177: MICHAEL PHILLIPS narrowly escapes the school-to-prison pipeline and advocates change - a podcast by Contagious, Inc.

What would you do if given a second chance? At just 19 years-old, Michael Phillips was facing decades in prison on drug charges. But a judge gave him an alternate option: go to a special college program for adjudicated youth instead. Now Michael has reinvented himself as a pastor and education reform advocate working to dismantle the system that results in so many young Black men like himself going straight from school to prison. Nine-time Emmy winner, David Sams, learns more about Michael’s incredible story that’s also detailed in his book, “Wrong Lanes Have Right Turns.”

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