240-year prison term
- Featuring: Lester Brown & Carolyn Scott Brown
- Date Submitted: Sep 27, 2019
- Location: Washington

Lester Brown was a notorious criminal in Detroit and was doing a 240-year prison sentence when he met a performance-improvement expert from the Pacific Institute. Lester, who has Alzheimer’s, and wife Carolyn Scott Brown recount how the encounter turned his life around. Lester learned to read, earned a college degree and instructed fellow inmates. Lester secured an early release, became an author and an inspiration for others. Edit credit: Sean Collins
KEYWORDS:
- Lester Brown
- Carolyn Scott Brown
- Prison
- Pacific Institute
- College degree
- Inspiration