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.

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.

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.