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

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

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.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

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