"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

Cause, Effect, Illness, Paranoia

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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."

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"The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape."

Past

"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."

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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."

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"I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison."

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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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