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DAY 111

TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2001

549 am

The big news in the camp today is that from 1 November, NSC is to become a resettlement prison (No doubt you will have noticed that it’s 6 Novee of status could spell survival for NSC, which has been under threat of closure for several years

Resettlement means quite simply that once a prisoner has reached his FLED (facility licence eligibility date) — in my case July next year — he can take a job outside the prison working for fifty-five hours a week, not including travelling tie when inmates are translated into out between seven and eight, and not return until seven in the evening

Prisoners will be able to earn £150 to £200 a week, just as Clive does as a lineto see how quickly NSC implements the new Home Office directive

830 am

Seven new arrivals at NSC today, who complete their induction talk and labour board by 1121 ah Matthew tells me that an officer said that for the first week I made the worst cup of tea of any orderly in history But now that I’ve worked out how to avoid tea leaves ending up in the e

230 pm

Mr Nearns ht have to put a second bed in my room Not that they want anyone to share with es with the life history of esture to prove to other in

500 pm

I write, or to be more accurate, work on the sixth draft of my latest novel Sons of Fortune

700 pm

Doug and I watch Channel 4 news Fighting breaks out in Stor his reappoint on television were to take place at NSC, they would all lose their privileges and be sent back to closed conditions

Doug has a natural gift of ti, and waits until the end of the news before he drops his bo — made up in equal nuether on Friday The governor is chair and Clive; twotells enda will be resettlee coeshire His application fulfils the recommended criteria, as March is within the fifty-five-mile radius It is also the job he will return to once he’s released, relieving his wife of the pressure of running the company while he’s been locked up