jackrabbit does when it‘s headlight-pinned to the
highway with a big truck bearing down on it Not one of those fourteen got away. Two of
them were shot dead - by civilians, not police officers or prison personnel -but none got
away.
How many had gotten away between 1938, when I came here, and that day in October
when Andy first mentioned Zihuatanejo to me? Putting my information and Henley‘s
together, I‘d say ten. Ten that got away clean. And although it isn‘t the kind of thing you
can know for sure, I‘d guess that at least half of those ten are doing time in other
institutions of lower learning like the Shank. Because you do get institutionalized. When
you take away a man‘s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his ability
to think in dimensions. He‘s like that jackrabbit I mentioned, frozen in the oncoming
lights of the truck that is bound to kill it More often than not a con who‘s just out will pull
some dumb job that hasn‘t a chance in hell of succeeding ... and why? Because it‘ll get
him back inside. Back where he understands how things work.

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