Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country (ed. 1996)