A Prison Diary

Price 5.89 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780330418591



Pages 272

Year of production 2003

Binding 120x180

"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.