Since the age of twelve Jack Abbott has been free a total of only nine and a half months he has served a total of more than fourteen years in solitary confinement. By the age of twenty-nine Abbott had killed an inmate and wounded another escaped from in a fight Maximum behind bars had Security had com- mitted bank robbery as a fugitive and had served time in such federal penitentiaries as Leavenworth, Atlanta and Marion. At eighteen he was convicted of "issuing a check against insufficient carcerated in the Utah sentence of up to and was in- State Penitentiary on a funds," five years. At the age of twelve he was committed to a juvenile penal institution-the Utah State Industrial School for Boys- for "failure adjust to homes," and was released five to years foster later. He spent his childhood in foster homes throughout the Midwest.
Half Irish, half Chinese, Jack Abbott was born January 21, 1944, in Oscoda, Michigan.
Mailer began to correspond Song, federal prisoner made with Abbott, and a startling literary dis- covery: the convict's direct, intense prose decidedly powerful his letters was were extraor- dinary for their clarity, vividness and ferocity. Abbott who wanted to warn him that very few people knew much about violence in prisons and who offered to clarify some aspects of Gary Gilmore's life.
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