Taken from SkeptiCamp 2023, streamed live from the QED fringe, September 2023, Manchester, UK.
Prison escapes are regularly the subject of TV shows and films and stories of ‘escaped’ prisoners often make national news.
The reality of the modern prison system means that such escapes almost never happen in practice, however fear of them and inflammatory reporting often leads to very damaging policy changes for those who remain in custody. In this talk Emma will be talking through the reality of prison escape in England and Wales with a combination of statistics and tales from her job representing those who have tried, failed, and succeeded at being unlawfully at large.
In an arguably masochistic attempt to demonstrate how difficult escaping is Emma plans to spend most the day *literally* running to the Mercure hotel from her house (over 30 miles) before delivering her talk in aid of The Prison Reform Trust
This video uses photos taken by Rob McDermott.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Talk
11:40 Q&A