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Hell: A Prison Diary, Volume 1
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| Title | Hell: A Prison Diary, Volume 1 |
| ASIN | 0330418599 -
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| Category | Autobiography |
| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Modified | Craverguy - April 15, 2010 05:38pm |
| Description | DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM
"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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