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The Jailer’s Salary

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I have an appointment at seven o’clock this morning at the Master’s Lodge of a Cambridge college. Christopher awaits me there and is keen that we escape the city before the onset of rush hour. It is still dark when I walk down his gravel path and ring the doorbell of his beautiful home. Christopher and Nicki, the Master, invite me to take a seat at their breakfast table and give me some honey from their own hives to sample. But Christopher wants us to be on our way. It promises to be a busy day, and we have an appointment at 8 a.m. with Gill at Bedford Prison, 25 miles west of Cambridge.

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Beken, T.V. (2016). The Jailer’s Salary. In: The Role of Prison in Europe. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29388-2_2

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