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Mr Beaumont sent a circular to all the officers at NSC a few days before he arrived which I obtained recently It gives you a flavour of the man (See opposite) I can’t believe his secretary ever checked the piece for grammatical mistakes Even an eleven-year-old would have spotted the error in the last line I can’t wait to meet him

DAY 238

WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2002

722 am

Gail rushes in, slightly flushed She’s been door-stepped by a woman from the News of the World who has discovered (fro NSC to take up another post The journalist is looking for stories and asked, ‘Are you leaving because of Archer?’

Gail replied that I a as a hospital orderly, and that I take the job very seriously, am popular with both the officers and the other prisoners and as and their relevance in prison Gail innocently asked how much they would pay for a story, to which the journalist replied a couple of thousand pounds – ht

1011 am

I as test You can refuse, but should you do so your privileges – town visits, canteen cash and weekend leave – are likely to be rescinded I discover that two prisoners have come up positive, one for amphetamines, the other for cannabis

By the end of the , that nuovernor for adjudication tomorrow

12 noon

An officer comes into the hospital and tells me that he once worked on the sex offenders’ unit at Whiteh stories to fill another volume

‘Giveup his coffee

He pauses for aprisoner on B block who used to keep a budgerigar in his cell, and the little bird beca in his life Another prisoner living on the sa the lad’s vulnerability, threatened to kill the budgie unless he gave hireed Within days, the first prisoner had becoe two phonecards for the prisoner to give a blow job and three to be buggered The piie survived That was until an inrassed on him in the hope that the pimp would be transferred to another prison and he could take over his lucrative position Both prisoners wereday

That led’