- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
- Paranoia
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Deep Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020