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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

~John Grisham

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It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

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Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

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Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

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We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

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Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

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We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 8th, 1955

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