Volume 27, Number 11 · June 26, 1980
In Prison
By Jack Henry Abbott, Introduction by Norman Mailer
A couple of years ago, in the middle of writing The Executioner's Song, I received a letter from a man in prison named Jack H. Abbott. He had heard I was writing a book about Gary Gilmore and wanted to tell me that he didn't see how such a work could be attempted, or Gilmore comprehended, without some real knowledge of what violence in prisons was really like. No one on the outside, he assured me, had a clue. They might think they understood but they didn't.
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