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A Prison Diary (aka Belmarsh: Hell) (Prison Diary, Bk 1) (Audio CD) (Abridged)
A Prison Diary - aka Belmarsh: Hell - Prison Diary, Bk 1 - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Jeffrey Archer, Andrew Sachs (Narrator) 'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged w... more »ith shoplifting - his first offence, not even convicted - and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.' On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
Abridged; read by Andrew Sachs. 5 CDs., approx 6 hrs.« less