Keep Smiling Fletch

Been inside ere for 7 weeks now.

Seven weeks of the same four walls and the same people, now is that not a prison sentence?
Well if you call a life the only time you go out is to work and the only thing you do but work is sleep I feel the prisoners have is easy.

-7 one night a month ago and I said to my workmate that the Barlinnie inmates have got it good, it seem to have sunk in to him a few days later when he told me I was right.

We are contained in a solid cabin, much like the ones used for storing things on building sites. It has no window, heating or water. Also it has a fence round it and some sort of drainage system that looks much like a moat. I do 16 hour days and the rest is sleeping, I get an hour out to get food/water/air and that is it. Prison is what I sounds like.

When you think of prison you as a British person may instantly think of Porridge the great BBC TV show from the 70's.

I mean Fletch was nothing but a petty criminal till he got done for Breaking and Entering. What have I done to get given worse conditions than him?
I have a very nice person one one shift who is a bit dim, like Godber but a female. She is not too sure why she is here but like Godber she is unlucky and got caught once. She may never learn but goes on and on about gettin out. She should be happy with what she has when she gets out.
Mr Barrowclough is a hydro geologist, and a very incompetent one at that, the inmates seem to show him what to do and to keep an eye on em. With only new inmates to intimidate the older ones keep em at harms length at a gain to us. We need to have one of em on our side at one point and a good few favours are owed.
'Horrible' Ives is my bunk mate some days and will take anything he can get. Always on the lookout for a deal and a total grass and a sneak. He is the one to keep a secret from and to only trust a rumour with evidence.
Lukewarm is a lab rat here and is well liked by all, again just a bad day in the office and he has ended up as one of the inmates. He can do his role well here and is very good at getting the cons in a good mood.
Jock is a part time inmate here and he is a Labourer on site, he turns up here and there. Just as loud and violent as GBH original. He always does as he is told mind and is respected by the others. But he is the butt of many jokes.

I could go on as so many here are like the TV show. Mind you after all this time my mind must be playing tricks on me. Well No...

The Guvoner here is just as calamity minded but with good intent. He never gets the big picture. If it all fails he is so well in with the rich people that he will get another high powered job and never be blamed for his faults.

I will on the other hand get out and again find another stupid mistake force me to do porridge again. The next time it may be longer but I hope not.
Unlike the TV show this is not funny, Fletch can always find a joke and crack a smile but even he stopped doing that in Going Straight.