Jack Henry Abbott
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broader: prisoners
broader: key people in prisons and correctional facilities
definition: 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 (1944–2002)]

people
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type: ConceptGroup
member: Jack Henry Abbott

key people in prisons and correctional facilities
type: Concept
narrower: Jack Henry Abbott

prisoners
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narrower: Jack Henry Abbott