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DAY 104

TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2001

601 am

Write for two hours I’ve now co incarcerated Perhaps Alan Coren is right

815 am

Ten new prisoners arrived yesterday They will be seeing the doctor straight after breakfast before coiven their induction pack, and then be interviewed by the labour board One by one they make an appearance So to learn, while others are nervous and anxious, and full of desperate questions

And then there’s Michael Keane (lifer, fourteen years so far, aged thirty-nine)

Those of you who’ve been paying attention for the past 250,000 words will recall my twenty days at Bel His brother Michael has the saet that all seven Keane brothers have been in jail at the sa the taxpayer a million pounds a year Michael passes on William’s best wishes, and adds that he heard today that his sister has just been released fro of credit-card cri for parole in March, and if Irish charh, he’d make it, but unfortunately, the decision has to be ratified by the Home Office, ill only read his files, and never see hiendary, because when he was at Belot as far as the first outer gate while e to escape from hell

1020 am

A scruffy, unshaven prisoner called Potts checks into SMU to confir with his solicitor this afternoon I check my day sheet to see that his lawyer is booked in for three o’clock Potts, who has just come off a three-hour shift in the kitchen, smiles

‘See you at three, Jeff’

1140 am

All ten inductees have been seen by the labour board, and are fixed up with jobs on the farm, in the kitchen or at the officers’VAT), has opted for full-tiree

12 noon

Over lunch, Doug asks me if I’ve put inset up, but happily play along He then tells me the story of two previous inmates, Bruce and Roy, ere partners in crime