Part 20 (1/2)

When he was transferred to NSC, the psychiatrist visited hiularly A report of her visit was passed back to her own prison, and she subsequently had to resign froh and her relationshi+p with Andy continued to blossom Today they were married at a ceremony in Boston attended by five officers and nine prisoners

NSC currently has twenty-three resident murderers, and I think I'veAndy, are aentlest people I have ever co to take an MDT It's well known that he's a heroin addict, and has found yet another way to beat the systeovernor can only add twenty-eight days to his sentence, whereas if he agrees to take it and then proves positive for heroin, he could be sentenced to fifty-six extra days and even be shi+pped out to a B-cat However, Mr Vessey points out that should he refuse a second time, they can shi+p him out the same day

DAY 269 - SAturdAY 13 APRIL 2002

The new chapel orderly committed an unusual crime 'On the out' he was an accounts executive for a well-known furniture company He became head of the complaints department, whose responsibility it was to ensure that when custooods they received a refund and the article was returned to the store's seconds department

One Christmas, the chapel orderly purchased a sofa for his mother, but she didn't like it He returned the sofa and applied for a refund, giving his own naally It was then that the man realized that only he and the co a false naus claim and the co the na the following year, he supplemented his incoirlfriend (she unwittingly) lived in co the su himself a bonus over the Christht? A secretary mistakenly opened a random file on her computer, and was surprised by what she found how could 127 people living at the same address all require a refund for 127 different pieces of furniture they'd ordered over the past year?

The accounts executive pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years He is now the chapel orderly at NSC

DAY 278 - MONDAY 22 APRIL 2002

As part of his rehabilitation into society, one of the lifers (Malcolm, armed robbery) has just started an outside job as a cleaner at Haven High School

The first day turned out to be a bit of a culture shock when he discovered howwomen have beco with a fourteen-yearold who approached him in the corridor

'Are you a convict?'

'Yes, I am'

'What are you in for?'

'Armed robbery'

'How many years have you served?'

'Fourteen'

'Fourteen years without sex?' the girl said in irl lifted up her skirt, and said, 'Well youHad she reported hi about sex, he probably would have been transferred back to a B-cat the same day

DAY 287 - WEDNESDAY 1 MAY 2002

1030 a dealer, has collapsed after taking an overdose only hours before he's due to be released What kind of problems can he have on the outside, that he considers suicide a better way out than the front gate?

Tony has been a regular at the hospital over the past feeeks, so there's no way of knowing if he's been storing up pills, and how many he sed today Rather than wait for an arim Hospital in the prison ht

600 pht in jail They pumped out his sto will he survive on the outside?

708 p field with the intention of watching Hendry vs Doherty in the quarterfinal of the World Championshi+p snooker, 29 when there's a knock ona letter that he wants me to hand to sister, but he asks me to read it first It's a two-sided handwrittenfor his behaviour over the past feeeks, and thanking sister for her kindness and understanding I pro Tony is just about to leave when I ask his I quite expect hi the usual prison vernacular, but torooive a fuck, I' the next hour, I ask him question after question, all of which he ansith a brutal frankness

'Did you try to commit suicide?'

'No, I just OD'd'

'How often do you take heroin?'

'While I've been here, usually four ti, just after dinner, then again after tea and just before I go to bed'

'Do you inject it, sniff it or smoke it?'

'Smoke it,' Tony replies 'Only fuckin' et HIV or hepatitis B by injecting themselves with someone else's needle While I've been in jail, I've seen needles used by a hundred different inular heroin users, and if you consider their families, over a million people must be involved Heroin costs the NHS three billion a year'

'How do you get the heroin into prison?'

'There are several ways, but the most common is to pick it up from a dealer when you're out on a weekend leave, and then pack a couple of ounces in a condo up there'

'A couple of ounces?'

'That was all I could afford this ti back from Holland with seven ounces of marijuana'

'How much would that be worth?'

'If it's pure, the best, you could be talking around a hundred grand'

'So when you bring the drugs back into the prison, are they just for you?'

'No, no, no, I have to pay my supplier ”on the out” I's or pawns I's the his pawns, '

'So how many of the two hundred inmates at NSC are on heroin?'

He pauses to consider the question

'Thirty-nine that I'm aware of,' he says

'But that's around twenty-five per cent'

'Yeah,' he replies,dealer while you're on the inside?'

'Easy,' says Tony 'I only sell to those inmates who have someone on the outside ill hand over cash direct to my dealer I never supply until the money has been received'