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

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

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

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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 21st, 1944

Died: February 10th, 2002

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