“No one lays a hand on me. No one abuses me in any way. I have been trying to figure it out and I have come to the conclusion that, if in the beginning I had been treated as I am now, then there wouldn't have been quite so many people that have been robbed, raped and killed.”

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Carl Panzram’s Written Confession From Prison, 1928. Panzram speculates that if people in life had treated him as well as he was currently being treated in prison, he would have wound up far differently.

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