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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.

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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.
753 To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
820 There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
716 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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