Inside Out: The True Story Of The Simmonds-Newcombe Gaol Escape: Les Newcombe

On October 9, 1959, Kevin Simmonds and Les Newcombe broke out of Long Bay Gaol. Both incarcerated for strings of minor crimes, their escape set in train the most incredible manhunts in Australian history - a media event which aroused public feeling to fever pitch. The death of a prison warder, the dogged determination of police and the often ingenious desperation of the fugitives focussed public attention on not only the escapees, but also on the prison system from which they had sprung - its brutality and its systematic denial of hope and humanity. This is Les Newcombe's story - a story of life in prison and out of it, as a free man, a prisoner and an escapee. Illustrated with black and white photos.