TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archer,Jeffrey
TI  - A prison diary
SN  - 033041884X (pbk.)
U1  - 828.91403 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Archer, Jeffrey,
KW  - HM Prison Wayland
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Novelists, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Prisons
N2  - '' Day 37 friday 24 august 2001 3.00 PM. After two weeks of walking round the perimeter of Wayland prison, I can now spot evil, fear, helplessness and sadness at thirty paces. But even I am puzzled by a crouching man who always sits alone in the same place every day, huddled up against the fence. He can't be much more than thirty, perhaps thirty-five, and he rarely moves from his solitary position. I ask Darren about him. 'Tragic,' he says.'Alistair is one of your lot - public school, followed by university, where he graduated as a heroin addict. If he doesn't kick the habit, he'll be in prison for the rest of his life.'' 'How  can that be possible?' I ask... On 9 August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was  transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Caterory high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously overstretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates... Back cover
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