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The hopeless cycle of addiction – and drug running – behind bars

11 July 2023

4:12 PM

11 July 2023

4:12 PM

It’s my seventh night in HMP Wandsworth at the start of my 45-month sentence for fraud. I live on A Wing now, with a new cellmate, John, a heroin addict. He’s an older guy, short, very slight, sores all over his face, neck and hands. Prison is full of men like John: addicts who get sentenced to a few weeks, or months, in prison.

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