Cover art for A Prison Diary Hell Vol. 1
Published
Pan, July 2003
ISBN
9780330418591
Format
Softcover, 272 pages
Dimensions
17.7cm × 11.2cm × 1.8cm

A Prison Diary Hell Vol. 1

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DAY 5MONDAY 23 JULY 20015.53AM'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement.

There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting-his first offence, not even convicted-and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.'On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals.This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.

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