An inmate protested on the roof of Strangeways can be named as Joe Outlaw.
The 36-year-old prisoner climbed on the roof of one of the buildings on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 14. He stayed up there for 12 hours until the early hours of Thursday, April 13.
While on the roof, he wrote the words "FREE IPPZ" in white paint and he was also heard shouting "free IPP." Police said Outlaw eventually "willingly came down from the roof" and was "back in the custody of prison staff."
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The message is believed to refer to The Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence (IPP) sentence, which was abolished in 2012 and branded 'unjust'. The MEN has now revealed that Outlaw was previously jailed for robbery for an indeterminate length of time in 2011.
Outlaw has 33 previous convictions and has previously shared videos on YouTube and TikTok in which he talks and raps about the 'injustice' of IPP sentences. In one video posted earlier this month, he urged people to 'look into' IPP sentences and vowed to raise awareness of the issue.
Prison bosses have vowed that Outlaw "will now face punishment" for his actions. In January 2021, Outlaw was given a 10-month prison sentence after he admitted assaulting a fellow inmate at Wakefield Prison. A judge ordered that the sentence run concurrently to the one he was already serving.
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