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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.

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788 When 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.
756 When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
752 To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
819 There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
715 The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

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