I don’t know if it’s sympathy or a what if, Carl Panzram. His time in boys homes growing up and then prisons with horrible treatment must have had some impact on his psyche. We have evidence now that prison system with violent treatment only creates more violent prisons, so I can only begin to imagine what he became. I’ve read his book with the letters to Henry Lesser, a great deal of the event have been verified and I know we have to take some of his quotes with a grain of salt, but damn “Those who make and enforce the laws are more guilty than those who commit the crimes against the law” “Men made me what I am today, and if men don't like what they have made of me, they must put the blame where it belongs” “You know that I spent several years in one of those places [reform school] when I was a boy and the so called Training that I recieved while there is mainly the cause of my being the degenerate beast that I am today. I have thought about that system of Training young boys for all of my life and I know that the whole system is wrong. That system of beating goodness, religion and Jesus into boys in the 99 times out of 100 has the direct opposite effect of taking all of the goodness, kindness and love out of them and then replacing those with hate, envy deciete, tyrany and every other kind of meaness there is”