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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > key people in prisons and correctional facilities > Jack Henry Abbott
contexts > named groups > persons > prisoners > Jack Henry Abbott
... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > prisoners > Jack Henry Abbott
social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > offenders > prisoners > Jack Henry Abbott

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Jack Henry Abbott  

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  • Jack Henry Abbot is remembered as a complex and controversial figure in the history of U.S. prisons. In 1978, Abbott, while in prison, initiated a lengthy correspondence with author Norman Mailer, who was at the time writing The Executioner's Song (1979), a fictionalized biography of executed murderer Gary Gilmore. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Abbott, Jack Henry]

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