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12 noon

Lunch isShe suspects it’s been stolen and will appear in one of the tabloids tomorrow She supplies me with a new one, but asks n it, just hand the sheet over to her

200 pm

While clearing out the drawers, Matthew coer with the initials GR and a crown above it Two hours later, every shelf has been washed and scrubbed All the documents we need for inductees are in neat piles, and we have three bin bags full of out-of-date material

445 pm

I join Doug and Matthew for supper: vegetarian sausage and mash

500 pm

Back in my rooo to the gym

DAY 98

WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER 2001

830 am

Today is labour board All inductees, having completed their other interviews, must now be allocated a job, otherwise they will receive no incoement (the farm and other activities) and a senior officer Before any inductee faces the board I brief theh the process only a week ago I tell them it helps if they knohat they want to do, and one of the Asian

called Ahmed, tells me he’s after my job Another, Mr Clarke, infor job, perhaps a couple of hours a day I io upstairs and ask the board if he could be allocated to this office, which would allow me to concentrate on the weekly inductions and the several prisoners who pop in during the day to talk about their problems They tell me they’ll think about it

1215 pm

I return to the SMU after lunch to find a drugs officer in the kitchen His black Labrador Jed is sniffing around I round, and listen to a conversation he’s having with Mr New It sees officer tells Mr New that last year, thirty-six visitors were found with drugs on them, two of them solicitors and one a barrister I am so surprised by this that I later ask Mr New if he believes it He nods Ironically, the headline in today’s Tialized?’ I leave the office at 130 pm as I have a visit myself today