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Wives or partners are a crucial factor in a prisoner’s survival It’s not too bad if the sentence is short, but even then the partner often suffers asalone on the outside In Mary’s case, she is now living her life in a glare of publicity she never sought

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There’s a timid knock on the door I open it to find a prisoner ants to talk about writing a book (this occurs at least once a week) His na on a book entitled The History of Kurdistan, and wonders if I’ll read a few chapters (Sa at a university in Kurdistan) When he has completed his sentence, Saman wants to settle down in this country, but fears he may be deported

‘Why are you at NSC?’ I ask him

Saerous driving, for which he was sentenced to three years He’s due to be released in December

DAY 102

SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER 2001

600 am

Today’s is hty-nine

815 am

After breakfast I read The Sunday Ti newspapers differ from prison to prison, often without rhyme or reason At Wayland the papers were delivered to your cell, but you can’t have your ospaper at NSC

While I’ article on anthrax, another prisoner looks over his copy of the News of the World, and says, ‘I’ fifty quid a week, Jeff’ We both laugh He knows only too well that orderlies are paid £850 a week, and only those prisoners who go out to work can earn h, this sort of blatant invention or inaccuracy has made my fellow inmates more sympathetic

1000 am

Phone Mary in Grantchester and at last get a ringing tone She’s just got back from Munich, which she tells me ell Not all the Germans are aware that her husband is a convict Her book, Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics, was received by the conference with acclai for so 907 copies Mind you, it is £110 a copy, and by scientific standards, that is a best-seller I use up an entire phonecard (twenty units) getting myself up to date with all her news

1100 am