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500 pm

Dean takes me off to supper in the canteen The food looks far better than Wayland’s, and it is served and eaten in a central hall, rather like at boarding school

600 pm

Write for two hours, and feel exhausted When I’ve finished, I walk across to join Doug in the hospital He see to be invaluable asnews in comfortable chairs Dean joins us a few minutes later, despite the fact that he is only hours away fro released He says that my laundry has already been washed and returned to my room

815 pm

I walk back to the north block and report to the duty officer for roll-call Mr Hughes wears a peaked cap that resee, and he enjoys the coeant major type (twenty years in the army) but within moments I discover he’s a complete softie The in, he does it If he can’t, he tells you

I return to my room and push myself to write for another hour, despite a smoke-filled room and loud music

1000 pm

Final roll-call Fifteen minutes later I’m in bed and fast asleep, oblivious to David’s smoke and music

DAY 90

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2001

530 am

Alsatians wokekeys as theyrounds, but as NSC is only 100 yards froulls that causes you to open your eyes Later, est group of residents at NSC are the pigs living on the 900-acre prison farht above my head toroutine He doesn’t stir At seven-thirty I make my way to the shower room at the end of the corridor

800 am

Dean accoe from Monday to Friday, and cereal at weekends, he explains I satisfyand a couple of slices of burnt toast