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DAY 127

THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2001

555 am

The problem of whether I should re Hill, has co (VAT fraud and current hospital orderly) has been told by Mr Berlyn that if he applies for a job at Exotic Foods in Boston, who currently earanted the status of outside worker, which would take hi hio back and forth to work

If Doug is offered the job, then I will only do oneon my responsibilities to Carl I would then have to spend a week being trained by Doug in the hospital routines, so that I could take over the following Monday

1030 am

Eight new inductees today, and all seem relieved to be in an open prison, until it coain, lu Few of thes, sheep and Brussels sprouts, re the temperature on the fens at this time of year is often below zero One of the prisoners, a West Indian called Wesley, used to warry that he asks to be sent back to Ashwell, his old C-cat prison He says he’d be a lot happier locked up all day with a wall to protect him from the wind Mr Berlyn assures him that if he still feels that way in a month’s time, he’ll happily send him back

500 pm

Early supper is, as I have explained, one of the orderlies’ privileges, so I was surprised to see a table occupied by six inmates I’d never seen before

John (lifer, senior kitchen orderly) tells un, they can only eat between the hours of sunset and sunrise, which means they cannot have breakfast or lunch with the other prisoners That doesn’t explain why they’re having dinner on their own, because it’s pitch black by five o’clock on a Nove and …

‘Ah,’ says John, ‘good point, but you see the large tray stacked with packets of milk and cornflakes? That’s tomorrow’s breakfast, which the

y’ll take back tonight and have in their roo If the other prisoners find out about this, when they still have to coine how many complaints there would be?’

‘Or conversions to Allah and the Musliest

600 pm

I givea best-seller The audience of twenty-six is made up of prisoners and staff There are five ladies in the front row I do not recognize, seventeen prisoners and four h and Ms Hampton, the librarian