To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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.

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.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

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.