Overview
The number one bestseller and storyteller writes a powerful account of life inside the British penal system.
<p><i>Hell</i> is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer’s The Prison Diaries, the author’s daily record of the time he spent there.<br><br><i>‘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 with shoplifting</i> <i>– 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.’</i><br><br>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 volume recounts his experience while there.</p>
- | Author: Jeffrey Archer
- | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2023
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781509808878
- | ISBN-10: 1509808876
