There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

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• Jack Henry Abbott:

  As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I d

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

• Jack Henry Abbott:

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

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to refor

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

• Jack Henry Abbott:

  Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside

• Jack Henry Abbott:

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