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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.

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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
Author
Film Director
Poet
Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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