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After lunch, Dean takes me across to view the more secluded, quieter south block, which is at the far end of the prison and houses the older inmates1 Here, there is a totally different atmosphere

Dean shows e by norht feet, with athat looks out over the bleak North Sea He explains that the whole spur is in the process of redecoration and is scheduled to reopen on Monday In-cell electricity (ICE) will be added, and all rooms will eventually have a television On our way back to the north block, an officer informs me that the principal officer, Mr Neants to see oing to send me back to Wayland?

PO New is in his late forties, around five feet eleven, with a shock of thick white hair He greets me with a warm smile ‘I hear you want to work at SMU?’ he says, and before I can reply adds, ‘You’ve got the job As Matthew is leaving in four weeks’ tiht away so there can be a sot the words thank you out before he continues, ‘I hear you want to move to the south block, which I’m sure will be possible, and I’ Hill, which,’ he adds, ‘will not be quite as easy, because they don’t want you and the attendant publicity that goes with you’ My heart sinks ‘However,’ he says, again before I can respond, ‘if that’s what you want, I’ll have a ithHill and see if she can help’

Once Mr New has coo downstairs toine what he’s doing in prison Despite Mr New talking es to telltea and coffee for the eleven occupants of the building, through to preparing induction files for every prisoner He’s out on a town leave tomorrow, so I will be thrown in at the deep end

445 pm

Dean grabsthat orderlies have the privilege of eating on their own thirty minutes ahead of all the other inmates

‘You get first choice of the food,’ he adds, ‘and as there are about a dozen of us,’ (hospital, stores, reception, library, gye) All this within twenty-four hours isn’t going to make me popular

DAY 91

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2001

530 am

I wake a few o for a pee in the latrine at the end of the corridor Have you noticed that when you’re disoriented, or fearful, you don’t go to the lavatory for some time? There must be a simple medical explanation for this I didn’t ‘open my bowels’ – to use the doctor’s expression — for the first five days at Belo’ at NSC

800 am

Dean turns up to take me to breakfast I e, and it’s hardly worth the journey for a couple of slices of burnt toast Dean warns e su offered for a photo of et a snap, they will be disappointed to findaround in a T-shirt and jeans No arrows, no number, no ball and chain

845 am

At reception, I ask Mr Daff if it would be possible to have a clean T-shirt, asme this afternoon