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

Memory, Prison

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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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"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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"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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"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."

Circumstance

"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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