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900 pm

I confess that, by prison standards, I aht to let you know I’et back to earth

DAY 162

THURSDAY 27 DECEMBER 2001

1000 am

Governor Lewis has received a call froe any details, he suspects the Shadow Home Secretary will be in touch with Mary who in turn will brief me Mystery

The governor sips his tea ‘As I’ to tell you a story about a present member of staff who must remain anony he and his ent to their local for a drink When they left the pub later, the officer saw a et his car started, but it sounded as if the battery was flat The officer asked if he could help by giving a push The driver said thank you and the officer pushed hiave a toot of thanks as he disappeared over the horizon

When the officer concerned returned to work the following , he learned that one of the ined to steal a car fro iven him a push start’

‘It can’t be true,’ I protest ‘Surely he recognized the prisoner?’ (To be fair, there are over two hundred inmates at NSC and the turnover is often twenty to thirty a week)

‘You’d think so,’ replied the governor, ‘especially as the inhs The officer concerned ht have even lived it down if it weren’t for the fact that neither the prisoner nor the stolen car has been seen since’

DAY 163

FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER 2001

1107 am

Whenever there’s a serious injury in prison, the immediate question always asked is, ‘Was another prisoner involved?’ So when Linda and I are called over to the north block to check on an in on the floor, Linda’s first question is, ‘Who pushed him?’

By the tihes and Mr Jones, are present, and they are satisfied Ron has had a genuine accident However, there are several touches of irony in this particular case The in a six-week sentence, and is due to be released next Thursday Last year he broke his left leg in a ht leg, and several of the pins in his left have been dislodged Linda confirh how he’d abscond with two broken legs is beyond me — and why