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