An excerpt from the book: Day 38. Saturday 25 August 2001. 5.11am. I wake and think about how I would be spending the August bank holiday weekend if I were not in prison. I also begin to consider whether there are any advantages to being in jail. Certainly, incarceration is something to be added to one's experiences, particularly as it has come at a period in life when I felt I was marking time. I've also have to stretch myself - unfortunate pun. But I've already reached a stage where I am gaining little from the experience. As I could be stuck here for a while longer, it might be wise to have an escape plan - escape of the mind. I've already completed Belmarsh: Hell, and have penned 44 000 words of Wayland: Purgatory. I can't wait to get to heaven, whenever and wherever that might be.
After reading Hell (2002), Archer continues his prison diaries series in a second volume entitled Purgatory (2003). On 9 August 2001, he was transferred to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk where he served for sixty-seven days and during that time, continued his frank and dry account of his incarceration and daily degradations inside the British penal system. This is an eye-opener read full of information on drug pushing in prisons. It is a corruptible read. Recommended. For more information, go to www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk
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