The misfit is described as a person who does not believe in anything that he cannot see or feel. So what should the reader assume when providing evidence of his innocence? The memory of his father's death due to a “flu epidemic” is as vivid in his mind as any other memory. He even challenges Grandma to "go there and see for yourself." If so, perhaps prison has destroyed all his good nature. The feeling of being “buried alive” in a cell has tampered with his internal compass to the point that he no longer knows the difference between good and evil. However, if this is the case, it is safe to assume that just as he lost all the good, he could very well have lost all the bad. All the time he spent in prison took a heavy toll on his soul. So much so that he feels he can't "make everything [he] did wrong match what [he] got in punishment." This statement from the Misfit almost sounds like a surrender on his part. It seems that all things wanted to do the right thing in his life, in his desperate attempt to tip the scales in favor of good. Once in prison he saw no escape and simply surrendered to his evil nature you will forget what you did and will be punished for it." If he could so easily forget such atrocities isn't that an evil in and of itself? Prison doesn't have that transformed into the Misfit, or rather transformed him