Jack Henry Abbott was born on January 21, 1944, on a military base in Oscoda, Michigan. Growing up in foster care and living in the under the state laws his whole life Jack Abbot didn't have much of a chance for a normal life. From the time that he was born he was living in the state foster care system. After a short while he was in trouble with the law. As an adolescent he was living in the state juvenile detention center. Jack would be punished because he was just that sort of kid. Due to the fact that everyone knew his past he was punished his whole life. Abbott first was sent to the boys' school because of failure to conform to the foster care home and systems. When he was first sent to prison it was because he had insufficient funds in his account and bounced a...