Quotes about School by Jack Henry Abbott

2 quotes about School by Jack Henry Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott American author

At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult.

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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

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