Synopsis
On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk.
He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily degradations...
Details
06 April 2023
336 pages
9781509808885
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
The finest thing that Jeffrey Archer has ever writtenIndependent on Sunday
Compelling reportage . . . Jeffrey Archer raises these diaries to the standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder of fellow inmates’ secretsJonathan Aitken, Mail on Sunday
Archer paints a bleak but true picture of life in prison . . . It is vivid and disturbing, and will reach a vastly wider audience than any academic treatise or political pamphlet on the subjectAnn Widdecombe, New Statesman