Now it’s all gone off here as well. Saturday night one of the guys came back from a town visit pissed and ended up in a fight. He stabbed the other guy with something – apparently there was blood absolutely everywhere. Then it went from bad to worse. The guy who started it was shipped straight across the road to the high security prison and was dead within three hours – hung himself! Christ I thought once I got to an open prison these type of things didn’t happen. B wing was locked down all day Sunday and there were dogs everywhere. Must have been at least 20 of them – they came in six white vans. Prisoners on B wing were told to go and collect their food one by one from the dining room and were then locked down for the rest of the day.

The atmosphere has changed dramatically. There is an air of apprehension and the whole place is really hushed. No doubt more information will filter through in the next few days. I wouldn’t be surprised if it hits the newspapers, but then this kind of stuff goes on all the time in the high security prisons and nobody gets to hear about it. I think the national average is way over one suicide per week. So maybe this will remain quiet. Either way I had better let the wife know – if she reads about it in the papers she will panic. So much for her thinking this is a holiday camp.