strangeways

13th April 2023

Prisoner who escaped onto the roof of Strangeways ‘willingly came down’ after 12 hours and will ‘face punishment’

He's now been named as 36-year-old Joe Outlaw....

21st June 2021

Looking back at some of Strangeways’ most notorious inmates over the last 153 years

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21st February 2021

Manchester’s prisoners reveal what life is like behind bars during a pandemic

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26th April 2020

Booze, drugs, streakers and speakers: The Strangeways Riot was Madchester in the sky

Madchester culture had consumed the city at the turn of the nineties. But it ......

20th April 2020

Remembering the infamous Strangeways Prison riots 30 years on

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