{"id":5061,"date":"2022-09-02T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:58:51","slug":"a-transitions-original-reflects-on-the-hard-years-and-the-good-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/a-transitions-original-reflects-on-the-hard-years-and-the-good-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A Transitions Original Reflects on the Hard Years and the Good Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"open-para\">Lawrence Morris is known among the tight-knit community of formerly-incarcerated students as a godfather, of sorts. Now pursuing his M.A. at Cal State San Marcos, he recently sat down with Palomar News to tell his story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAN MARCOS \u2014 Every morning for several years, Lawrence Morris took his place in the Student Union at Palomar College with hot coffee and a listening ear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the hours went by, students with a similar past\u2014men and women who had spent time in prison or jail\u2014would sit down and do something not often witnessed among the formerly incarcerated. They would talk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI had a regular table in the Student Union\u2014I was here every morning at 7 o\u2019clock when it opened,\u201d he recalled. \u201cTwo or three times a week, I had donuts; I had coffee every day. Any student who wanted to sit down with me, I was here. I provided that security for them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSo I was adopted as their surrogate grandpa\u2014I think it has something to do with the beard, and also with being old and able to listen,\u201d he added. \u201cThese students could share what was going on in their lives and I\u2019m not trying to save them or fix them\u2014they know this\u2014I\u2019m just there to listen, and I\u2019ve got donuts and coffee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morris is friendly and talkative, but also reserved in a way that is unique to the formerly incarcerated. After more than four years of intensive involvement with students who have been impacted by the justice system, he knows where the pressure points are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNobody asks these students what they want\u2014they say, \u2018This is what you can do, this is what you can get.\u2019 Nobody ever asks them, \u2018Well, what do you want?\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cI start by asking them what they want. I say, \u2018Why are you here?\u2019 And then I start telling my story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he tells that story to a fresh group of Transitions students, it goes something like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2018My name is Lawrence, I\u2019m a naval submarine veteran, I spent 29 years incarcerated on a life term, I was released on parole in 2016 and discharged in 2021. I have two associate degrees and a certificate from Palomar College and\u2019\u2014now I can add\u2014\u2018I earned my bachelor\u2019s degree in Sociology from Cal State San Marcos, and I\u2019m a candidate in the Master of Sociological Practices program at Cal State. And, oh yeah, I\u2019ve got a nice beard.\u2019 And they will say, \u2018OK, this old guy is one of us.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>A Long Road Out West<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morris was the first Transitions student to graduate at Palomar College. But he arrived with a lifetime of experience under his belt\u2014including as a student in a variety of college programs during his incarceration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Transitions program at Palomar\u2014soon to be renamed Rising Scholars\u2014helps previously incarcerated individuals adjust to a college campus and successfully begin or resume their higher education. It also serves currently incarcerated students in the Vista Detention Facility, and hosts a summer session every year that serves as an orientation to the program and includes tutoring, weekly team building activities, guest speakers, two for-credit classes, and various other forms of support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally from Texas, Morris spent 10 years in the Navy, became a highly skilled submarine technician with nine occupational specialties\u2014and a handful of Cold War deployments he still can\u2019t discuss\u2014and wound up stationed in San Diego in 1986. The following year, he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twenty-nine years later, on May 4, 2016, he was released on parole, boarded a train for San Diego, and spent his first night on the outside sleeping on a bench in Santa Fe Station downtown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy train was two and a half hours late, so nobody was there to pick me up, and of course there were no pay phones, and nothing was open,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI couldn\u2019t even rent a room because I had no identification. I had a debit card with $200 on it and didn\u2019t know how to use it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few months later, he was living at the Amity Foundation\u2019s Vista Ranch when he met <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/the-rising-scholar-martin-leyvas-legacy-in-progress\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Martin Leyva<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, who founded the first Transitions programs in the region at MiraCosta and Palomar College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMartin was looking for a life-term formerly incarcerated person to speak following a screening of a documentary, \u2018Life After Life,\u2019\u201d Morris recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He shared his story with the audience that night, and soon he was with two dozen other formerly incarcerated and system-impacted students in a room at Palomar College\u2014the inaugural cohort of Transitions students in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>From Imposter to OG<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI found my people,\u201d he said, but being on campus after spending most of his adult life in prison was no walk in the park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cImposter Syndrome? That was me. Nobody looked like me on campus\u2014here\u2019s this old guy with a walking stick, a backpack with holes in it, and a beard. My first class was American Sign Language, and nobody in the class\u2014including the professor\u2014had even been born when I went to prison. And the technology? I had no clue. But I embraced the technology, because I had to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morris graduated from Palomar in 2019 with two associate degrees and a certificate in College Studies. He went on to earn his bachelor\u2019s degree in Sociology from Cal State San Marcos (CSUSM) in May 2022, and is now pursuing his master\u2019s degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morris has had a hand in every summer Transitions cohort that has convened at Palomar College. He also serves with Project Rebound, a support and services program for justice-impacted individuals at CSUSM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is revered among the other Transitions students for his generosity, wisdom and dedication. And he says no matter what else comes in life, he\u2019s going to keep serving his fellow students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI want to teach. I want to travel. I want to go do things. But I really want to stay connected to these programs that support formerly incarcerated students in some way,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s important to have the OG\u2019s here to support the next generation,\u201d he said, using the acronym for \u201coriginal gangster.\u201d \u201cAt Project Rebound at CSUSM, we stole that and flipped it. OG now stands for \u2018Opportunity Giver.\u2019 I\u2019ve been given opportunities. I believe it\u2019s part of my responsibility to make the same opportunities available for somebody else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Morris is known among the tight-knit community of formerly-incarcerated students as a godfather, of sorts. Now pursuing his M.A. at Cal State San Marcos, he recently sat down with Palomar News to tell his story. 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