A prison diary, Hell, volume I

Archer, Jeffrey

| 2003

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From the bestselling author of Kane and Abel, Hell is the first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries ? the author's daily record of the time he spent locked inside. 'A haunting and compelling insight into prison life' ? Daily Mail 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...

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