‘Total isolation’: UK prisoner’s 12-year protest against indefinite sentences

Joe Outlaw is one of the 2,921 inmates still on IPP sentences, which were abolished in 2012

It should be impossible to escape from a high-security prison, doubly so for prisoners held on the segregation unit, who are allowed only to exercise in a caged yard.

But on 21 June, the summer solstice and the hottest day of the year at that point, Joe Outlaw managed to break through the cage and get on to the roof of HMP Frankland, a Durham prison dubbed Monster mansion" due to many of its inmates being convicted murderers, terrorists and sex offenders.