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A Past That Lies Before Me

A University Professor’s memoir/exposé of being arrested, entangled in the criminal justice system, loss, jail, and unexpected blessings

by Steve Clark, PhD

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When he entered the jail, fellow inmates called him “perfesser.” When he left, they called him “pastor.”

When an accomplished university professor is arrested and sentenced to jail, he experiences firsthand the criminal justice system, a deliberately indifferent healthcare system, and the challenges felons face while trying to rebuild a life after their sentence is over. A Past That Lies Before Me is a raw, honest narrative about Steve Clark’s encounter with the legal system and the people he got to know in jail. It is also an exposé about adjusting to an alien world within the corrections system he dubs the “Entanglement System.” Simultaneously poignant, insightful, sad, provocative, and even funny at times, this memoir describes how jail delivered some unexpected blessings that left Clark a better man. All that—the bad, the good, and the unexpected—is the past that still remains before him.

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Hardback
Format: 6 x 9 Color Dust-Jacketed Hardback, 182 pages
Publisher: Fortissimo Press (Sep 15, 2025)
ISBN10:
ISBN13: 9798218997717
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

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Steve Clark, PhDSteve Clark, Ph.D., was a university professor with a Ph.D. in Immunology and a past Special Fellow of the Leukemia Society of America. Clark published dozens of papers based on his research and holds two drug patents. He taught medical and graduate students about cancer biology and genetics and about research ethics; directed an NIH-funded Ph.D. Graduate Program; and chaired several faculty committees, including the University’s Biological Sciences Executive Committee. Clark served on the University’s Chancellor’s Speaker’s Bureau. He is retired but has been blogging on the COVID pandemic, which is the subject of his next book.
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