Escape Artists is an established performing arts company, which began life as a drama group founded by a life sentence prisoner in HMP Wayland in 1990. Since the company?s inception in 1995, it has gradually become established in the professional arena. In the meantime, its commitment to prisoners, ex-prisoners and other socially excluded groups remains undiminished, writes Paul Malcolm. HMP Chelmsford is an overcrowded local prison. The prisoners it houses are, in the majority, young men... more