"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

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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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"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."

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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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"The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare."

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

Escape

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

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