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.
Jack AbbottI feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
Jack AbbottParanoia 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.
Jack AbbottThat is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Jack Abbott