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JACK THE BLASTER talks to his friend behind bars about what it would have meant had Grayling’s plans to ban books being brought into prisons not been blocked

I RECENTLY visited a man who has been behind bars for four decades last week.

He’s currently residing at Her Majesty’s pleasure at Swaleside prison on the Isle of Sheppey.

The setting was like something out of Great Expectations — the approach to the category B prison takes you along the Kent estuary. 

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