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We have a full surgery this : three for release, two for a week’s teined or real illnesses Dr Allwood, a thorough and conscientious man, always takes his time In fact, after fortyroo Gail leaps out of the surgery and tells the prisoner that her husband visited his GP last week and had to sit around for three hours, and that was after having to wait a week before he could make an appointment The inmate snarls

Chris, a lifer (murdered his wife), rolls up his sleeve and shows me a faded scar on the inside of his araze of the co prisoner, who looks surprised ‘Yeah,’ he continues, ‘stabbed in the ht by ency button no screws came to help me because I was on the top floor’ Chris now has the full attention of the rest of the surgery ‘No doctor at Gartree to come to my aid, so I sewed it up myself’ I look at his faded scar in disbelief, but Gail nods to confir over the years

‘Just a needle and thread was all I needed,’ he adds

1040 am

Mr Berlyn ent ith e at HMP Stocken about ives his talk to schools on the proble up in prison The good news is that Mr Le Sage is looking for a new prisoner to assist hireed to travel up to NSC next Monday to talk about the possibility of side hi appointed hospital orderly

Escaping the confines of NSC, visiting schools and feeling I’ hile must be the next step on this particular journey I thank Mr Berlyn and once again have so to look forward to Next Monday

300 pm

Only t inductees today because the prison is full When I check my board, I note one of them is called Blackburn We already have a Blackburn, I tell the young lad sitting in front of me

‘Yeah, that’s my dad,’ he says ‘He was my co-defendant’ I smell a story ‘You’ll never believe e’re in for, Jeff,’ he adds I reot three and a half years’

‘That sounds a bit rough,’ I venture foolishly

‘Yeah, well, I have to admit, Jeff, it was forty-six tons of ’erand’

‘But how do you fence chocolate bars?’

He laughs We already had a buyer’

‘At what price?’

‘Forty grand’