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During association I phone oes over the details of tomorrow’s announceratulate him on hoell the secret has been kept Not one newspaper has picked up that A Prison Diary by FF8282 will be published to that at least twenty people must have known at Macmillan and ten or more at the Daily Mail
DAY 444
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER 2002
552 am
This is my tenth day of incarceration at Lincoln
601 am
The publication of A Prison Diary Volume One – Belmarsh: Hell, is the lead item on the news The facts are fairly reported No one seems to think that the Home Office will try to prevent the publication However, the director-general is checking to see if I have broken any prison rules Mr Narey is particularly exercised by the mention of other prisoners’ names I have only referred to prisoners’ surnames when they are major characters in the diary, and only then when their perranted43
A representative of the Prison Officers’ Association said on the Today progra hile to say about prisons Perhaps it ht have been wiser for him to open his mouth after he’s read the book, when he would have discovered hoell his colleagues come out of my experience
732 am
My cell door is unlocked so I can be transferred froe for that select group ork in the kitchen The cells are a lot cleaner, and also have televisions My new coe thirty-nine), who is number one in the kitchen
Stephen is serving a seven-year sentence for s one and a half tons of cannabis into Britain He is an intelligentand the kitchen with a combination of charm and example
800 am
A group of fourteen prisoners is escorted to the kitchens Only two of the five who reported for drugs testing yesterday evening are still in the group
I a twenty-three-year-old called Lee, who is so good at his job – chopping potatoes, slicing onions, grating cheese andswedes – that I become his incompetent assistant My lack of expertise doesn’t seem to worry him
The officer in charge of the kitchen, Mr Tasker, turns out to be one of theincarcerated His kitchen is like Singapore airport: you could eat off the floor He goes to great pains to point out to me that he only has £127 per prisoner to deliver three e to achieve is nothing less than a miracle