| ISBN |
9780330418591 (paperback) |
| 0330418599 (paperback) |
| Name |
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- author. |
| Title |
A prison diary. Volume one, Belmarsh : Hell / FF8282 [i.e. Jeffrey Archer]. |
| Published |
London Pan Books, 2003. |
| Description |
259 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2002-2004. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subjects |
Archer, Jeffrey, -- 1940- Diaries |
| Archer, Jeffrey, -- 1940- Imprisonment |
| Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Diaries |
| Prisoners -- Great Britain -- Diaries |
| Prisons -- Great Britain |
| Series |
Prison diary 1. |
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