Jack Henry Abbott (January 21, 1944 – February 10, 2002)
was an American criminal and author. He was released from prison in 1981, while
serving sentences for forgery, manslaughter and bank
robbery, after gaining praise for his writing and being lauded by a number
of high-profile literary critics, including author Norman
Mailer. Six weeks after being released, he claims to have mistook the
intentions of a person who displayed no threat objectively, fatally stabbed
him, was convicted of manslaughter, and returned to prison, where he committed
suicide in 2002. He self-described his life as being a "state raised
convict", spending much of his life since age 12 in confinement in state
facilities, including solitary confinement. He wrote that because of
confinement with other violent offenders from whom he could not escape, he
developed a subjective perspective that every encounter was potentially threatened.
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