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A Prison Diary: Vol. 1: Belmarsh: Hell (Paperback)
$12.07 - Save $0.63 (4%) - RRP $12.70 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Prison Diary: Vol. 1The No. 1 best-seller and storyteller writes a forceful account of life inside the British penal system.
Full description- Publisher: Pan Books
- Published: 24 July 2003
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | True Stories | Prisons
- ISBN 13: 9780330418591 ISBN 10: 0330418599
- Sales rank: 6,783
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Full description for A Prison Diary: Vol. 1
'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.
