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n charge of a gun that discharged) says his town visit forer he will have to wait to find out if he will be allowed out Mr Hayes deals with it Merry (embezzlement) arrives with still no word as to when Group 4 will be transporting him to Sudbury so that he can be nearer his family Mr Hayes deals with it

Mr Hayes is an unusual officer He’s not frightened ofby them He also makes his own tea When I asked him why, he simply replied, ‘You’re not here to serve me, but to complete your sentence I don’t need to be waited on’

1000 am

Mr Hocking and I agree it would be better for the press to take a photograph and then go away, leaving his little band of security officers to get on with their job

I walk out of the SMU building and deliberately stop to chat to Peter (lifer, arson), who is sweeping leaves from the path He keeps his back to the ca and, true to forraphers all disappear

12 noon

Major Willis comes to SMU to hand back his red induction folder He tells me that he’s sixty-four, first offence, GBH, sentence one year, and that he’ll be released in March He was a , fell in love with a young Nigerian girl (a prostitute), whoan to bully him, and to spend what little money he had One day he could take no more, blew his top and stuck a kitchen knife in her She reported hiets his tag), six of them at NSC

He’s puzzled as to why I got four years

230 pm

A quiet afternoon A fleeting visit fro a prison shirt as the press keep reporting that ulation issue He checks the blue and white HMP label, and leaves, satisfied

900 pm

Fall asleep in front of the TV Doug says I snore I’ five hours a day, on top of a thirty-four-hour week, and I’ym

DAY 108

SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2001

I’ve written several ti takes place today that turns the normal torpor into frantic activity