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.
FF 8282 is a serving prisoner and during his incarceration has written three diaries:
Volume One -Belmarsh: Hell
Volume Two - Wayland: Purgatory
Volume Three - North Sea Camp: Heaven
ISBN:
9780330418591
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/09/2003
Category:
Biography: General
Imprint:
Pan
Pages:
272 page/s
Stock:
In stock
Price:
$19.95 AUD