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Jack Henry Abbott

"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

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"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

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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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"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."
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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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"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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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
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"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
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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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"When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life."
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