A prison diary. Volume 2, Wayland : purgatory / FF 8282 [Jeffrey Archer]
By: Archer, Jeffrey
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Publisher: London : Macmillan, 2003Description: 310 p. : ill., photos ; 18 cm.ISBN: 033041884X (pbk.).Other title: Wayland: purgatory.Subject(s): Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- -- Diaries![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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'' 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.