Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a great boxer who once almost won a world championship. However, in 1967 he was arrested and wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar, the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decades, he and his supporters amassed convincing evidence of his innocence that lead to his release in 1986. His story was told in the book Hurricane. The miraculous Journay if Rubin Carter by James S. Hirsch and also in the movie Hurricane with Denzel Washington. I can recommend both.
Because he spent so much time in prison, Rubin Carter has something fundamental to say about them:
This place is built for destruction. It is designed to destroy any and everything that comes into contact with it, for it is unnatural, it is anti-human, and it must destroy! It has no other choice. So being frightened is not being afraid; it is being smart! [..] Being frightened means not helping your keepers keep you kept, and handling this place and its people as one would handle a poisonous rattlesnake: always being completely respectful of its nature and what it is designed to do, and making damn sure that you always stay away from the business end of it!chiefpedro in Literatur | TrackBack(0)