![]() ![]() According to his book, In the Belly of the Beast (1981), he claimed to have been in and out of foster care from the moment of his birth until the age of nine, at which point he started "serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters". ContentsĪbbott was born at Camp Skeel in Oscoda, Michigan, to an Irish-American soldier and a Chinese prostitute. 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 threatening. ![]() 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. 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 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. Jack Henry Abbott (Janu– February 10, 2002) was an American criminal and author. ![]()
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