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1117 am

An officer (Mr Brighten) unlocks my door and tells me that he needs a forin with, I assume it’s a joke, and then become painfully aware that he’s serious Surely the staff can’t havesince the day I arrived, and now they want to put me where the food is prepared? I tell him politely, but firmly, that I have no desire to work in the kitchen

311 pm

I look up at , and think of Oscar Wilde Thisin conditions described so vividly by the great playwright while he was serving a two-year sentence in Reading jail

I never saw a man who looked

With such a wistful eye

Upon that little tent of blue

Which prisoners call the sky

515 pm

Mr Brighten returns to tell me that I will be placed on report if I refuse to work in the kitchen I agree to work in the kitchen

DAY 443

FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER 2002

The end of the second longest week in

my life

Jason (GBH) has received a movement order to transfer hi He’s ‘gutted’ as he hoped to be sent directly to a D-cat However, a conviction for violence will have prevented this By the way, he and his wife did agree to get back together, and she will now visit him every Saturday