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The walk across tocorridors is acco cereates every few yards, and e finally arrive, we are herded into the inevitable waiting roo We’ve only been standing around for a few , opens the door and says, ‘Archer, Mr Loughnane wants to see you about reallocation’ I’ve only just arrived
‘They’re letting you out,’ shouts one of the prisoners
‘Ask if I can share a cell with you, darling,’ shouts another
‘Don’t payrate,’ offers a third Prison humour
Mr Aveling escorts e, more co the past few days, and introduces hnane and Mr Gates I take a seat opposite them on the other side of the desk
‘More foretically ‘How are you settling in?’ he asks I now accept this as the standard opening to any conversation with an officer I haven’t met before
‘I’ to be locked up in such a confined space for so many hours’
 
; ‘Were you at public school?’ Mr Gates asks
‘Yes,’ I reply, wondering why he asked this non sequitur
‘It’s just that we find public school boys settle in far e prisoner’ I don’t knohether to laugh or cry ‘To be honest,’ he continues, ‘I’ve already filled in most of the boxes about whether you can read or write, if you’re on any drugs and how often you’ve been to jail I can also confirory D status, and will therefore be moved to an open prison in the near future’ Like ‘i in prison Mr Loughnane explains that first they have to locate a prison that has a vacancy, and once that has been confirmed, there will be the added problem of transport I raise an eyebrow
‘That’s always one of our biggest headaches,’ Mr Loughnane explains ‘Group 4 organize all the transport between prisons, and we have to fit in with their tiory D prisons you would like to be considered for?’
‘The only open prison I’ve ever heard of is Ford,’ I tell him, ‘and the one piece of information I’ve picked up froood library’
‘Yes, they do,’ confir the prisons handbook on the table in front of hiive the and check if they have any spaces available’
I thank the room