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Title	:	Hell (A Prison Diary #1)
Author	:	Jeffrey Archer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	July 24th 2003 by Pan Books (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir

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DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM

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 – 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.

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Original Title:	A Prison Diary, Hell, Volume I
ISBN:	0330418599 (ISBN13: 9780330418591)
Edition Language:	English URL http://jeffreyarcher.co.uk/books-and-plays/non-fiction/a-prison-diary-hell-volume-i/
Series:	A Prison Diary #1
Characters:	Jeffrey Archer
Setting:	London, England,2001(United Kingdom)

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Honestly, I do NOT know what all the flap is about Jeffrey Archer being such a piss-poor writer. I downloaded one of his free short-stories back in the winter from his "And Thereby Hangs a Tale" collection, and after just a few paragraphs in, I was immediately taken on an amazingly tantalising and tactile journey that pulled my emotions along in a very seamless manner. His story-telling skills are incredibly sharp and finely-honed, and in that regard, he reminds me very much of Dan Brown or J.K.

The millionaire author and lord is sentenced to four years for perjury (he elides over the specifics of his case), and details his 21 days at Londons Belmarsh Prison while waiting on appeal. Its an interesting look at the British penal system, which seems to suffer from some of the same defects at the American one (too many inside for drugs, too many first offenders turned into career criminals by associating with them on the inside, not nearly enough education or other incentives to improve).

Interesting insights into prison life and the British penal system but too sanctimonious for me.

I had been reading Jeffrey Archer's books for several years when one day I got quite a shock.Archer had been sentenced to serve time in prison !What's more,it was no ordinary prison. It was Britain's notorious high security prison,Belmarsh. He was to be kept with violent criminals.His stay at Belmarsh lasted twenty two days. He was kept in a tiny cell in solitary confinment.And straightaway,he devised a coping strategy. He picked up a pen and started writing again.The result was the three

I listened to this on audio and it wasnt until I was done and looked on Archers website that I realized this was Part I:Hell. There are two more parts, Purgatory and Heaven where he chronicles the rest of his two years behind bars. I will not be reading either of those. It is not because he is a person who does not summon sympathy (although he doesnt), it is because this book was boring. And if part one is called Hell and is boring, well, how much more monotonous can parts two and three be? It

Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to jail for perjury. He ends up in prison, with what seems like a load of time on his hands. Yes, I feel for him - as it can't be easy being locked up in a little cube for such a long period of time. As they say in SA - suck it up buttercup. You did the crime, now do the time. I am honestly tired of celebrities feeling that they have been hard done by, because they now have to go to jail like us common folk. The first volume of his time in prison covers the 22 days he

I make no apology for being an avid Jeffrey Archer fan. I think his novels are cracking good escapism. So there! I was however a bit apprehensive about reading his first prison diary. It was going to be full of Jeff feeling sorry for himself and berating everyone except himself, wasn't it?Well, no, actually. There was very little of that. Instead the insight into the prison service and some of its more off-the-wall rules had me laughing, crying and full of righteous indignation as the book