Purgatory: A Prison Diary (Vol. 2)

On August 9, 2001, twenty-two days after international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a notorious high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a medium-security prison in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously overstretched prison service, but the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates. Purgatory, a riveting account of these sixty-seven days, is the second volume of Archer's diaries of his experiences in prison, following A Prison Diary, his journal of his twenty-two days in Belmarsh.