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A 6 page book report on Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine, an Egyptian-Jewish immigrant who had just earned a law degree when his actions put him on the wrong side of the law and he was sentenced to life without parole for murder. His book paints a devastating picture of life behind bars, painting that environment as one rife with corruption and violence. No additional sources cited.
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by an inmate, a man condemned to life in prison without parole, presents the question of what is the responsibility of society towards those who break its law. Victor
Hassine is an Egyptian-Jewish immigrant who had just earned a law degree when his actions put him on the wrong side of the law and he was sentenced to life
without parole for murder. His book, Life Without Parole, paints a devastating picture of life behind bars, painting that environment as one rife with corruption and violence. Hassine was sentenced
to Graterford, the prison where the state of Pennsylvania sends its most violent felons. For awhile, Hassine records that he did the "prison thing," living in a world of indifference,
just concentrating on survival. He states that the system had taken away his "voice," as surely as if it had removed his vocal cords. While Hassine obviously feels this
accords him a certain degree of sympathy, the reader has to keep in mind that this man is a convicted murderer. He took a life, and, in so doing, stepped
outside the boundaries of social behavior. Most people in this country do not have a problem with the restrictions put on the lives of those who are known to be
guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really did exist" because he had an outlet, a way
to be heard. He wrote and submitted a poem, a play and a short story to the prison writing program, but did not consider nonfiction at first, because "inmates feel
no one will believe them when they write the truth." Here again, the reader can discern a note of reprimand from Hassine toward the societal perception of felons; however, there
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