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I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I served my time and came out of prison when I was just 26 and have worked with the government for 37 years. But people only remember me for what I did before that.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.