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.
Jack AbbottThat is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
Jack AbbottWhen 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.
Jack AbbottI'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.
Jack Abbott