Long Bay diet - less porridge, more freedom

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"Yesterday he ended his rapid weight-loss program by replacing what space he still took up in bed with pillows and escaping lawful custody by squeezing himself through a tiny gap between a brick wall and iron bars."

A great lesson for us all. Human determination and will to survive is a remarkable thing indeed. Give a human brain a challenge and it can problem solve in some interesting ways. As the article points out the prisoner went from 70 Kilos to 56 Kilos and no one noticed. Maybe they change shifts a lot. Maybe the clothing disguises it. Depends how tall he was and whether he still looked healthy. The difficulty is that he is dangerous and he obviously has the capacity to solve tricky problems. Two years ago he was found too mentally ill to face trial but he is in one of the few maximum security jails. The difficulty with mental illness is that peoples brains can be very incisive in some ways but very incapable of normal practical , grounded, social thinking. Mentally ill brains have extremes.

"Cole is blond, with a tattoo of a skull on his left upper forearm and an Indian on the right of his back."

The prison will no doubt deal with these issues and the questions with regard to his mental stability will be assessed by psychologists, psychiatrists and other health professionals. Mr. Coles certainly comes with a history which tends to suggest he is not coping in the real world, but he is obviously highly motivated to be free and that needs to be looked at too by experts. It's always very complex, but you don't think of prisoners sliding through cracks! The sooner he is found, the better.