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.