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How I spent a day behind bars

What would it be like for a journalist to live the life of a prisoner for 24 hours? Lucy Adams investigates.

JEFFREY Archer, Jonathan Aitken, Lord Watson, and even Tommy Sheridan have gone through a similar experience. I'm being photographed, searched, and my belongings are taken from me and placed in a sealed bag. Then the questions begin.