In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 100 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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State-Raised Convict

• Jack Abbott says that a lifetime in prison has not killed his emotions and daily he feels the urge to attack someone.

• Abbott was born on a military base in 1941 to a Chinese mother and an American father. He was in and out of foster homes from a young age and at the age of nine put into juvenile detention. At 18 he was sent to adult prison.
• While in prison, Abbott was sentenced to a further twenty years when he stabbed and killed an inmate. Abbott escaped five years later, but was found after six weeks.

• Abbott claims he has spent so much time in prison that he has the emotions of a boy.
• Abbott says he has never gone a month in prison without violating the rules, yet knows if he had behaved himself he would already have been a free man. He says he...

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