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Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

I hope I die before I get old.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.