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Three inmates absconded yesterday; it’s an hour to Boston on foot, about an hour and a half to Skegness The first, Slater (GBH) had a six-year sentence and had only been at NSC for four days Even more inexplicable is the fact that he was due for parole in Septe been transferred to a D-cat, could expect to have been released Slater was rearrested four hours after departing and taken off to HMP Lincoln, a B-cat, where he will spend the rest of his sentence – twoMadness

I am informed by an officer that the second in a positive MDT back from the Home Office, and as it was his second offence in three overnor would have been left with little choice but to ship him out to a B-cat So he shipped hi, and is now on his way to Nottinghaht days added to his sentence

The third in case He was due out in July, having already served nine years He walked into a police station thison the run for only seven hours He is also now safely locked up in an A-cat However, in Blagdon’s case, he never intended to ood his escape His cell-mate tells me that he didn’t think he could handle the outside world after nine years in jail – eight of theed up for twenty-two hours a day) – so now he’ll return to those conditions for at least a further five years, at the end of which he will have to co sure he isn’t set free, because he’ll never return to a D-cat

1000 am

Every day this week, an in into hospital to askthat day, and added ‘Are any of the that one of histransferred to NSC On the contrary, he is fearful of the imminent arrival of an old enemy

Yesterdaythe hospital manifest showed that six prisoners were due in from Lincoln, and when Jenkins studied the list of na the hospital That was the last I saw of him, because he ave himself up at a local police station He was arrested and shipped off to Lincoln

I sat next to Jenkins’s room-mate at lunch, as only too happy to tellwith the wife of another prisoner called Ohenever he was out on a fortnightly town leave He went on to tell hter) had recently found out that his as being unfaithful, and she had even told hiiven D-cat status after eight years in jail, immediately applied to be sent to NSC and is due to arrive this afternoon Now I understand why Jenkins absconded

200 pm

A group of five prisoners arrive froh the door, I report to sister that we seem to have lost one

‘Oh yes, Owen,’ she says, looking down at her list ‘He co and had his D-cat status taken away So he’ll be re at Lincoln for the foreseeable future’

DAY 313

MONDAY 27 MAY 2002

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A letter froh Court inforht weeks’ time

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