HM Prison Gartree

On Gallow Field Road...........how appropriate 
This fence is not the perimeter but is around some fields nearby as you cannot get near the prison or stop on the road 

Constructed on the western part of the site which was previously RAF Market Harborough Gartree Prison opened in 1965, and was originally a Category C training centre, but its status was quickly upgraded to a maximum security prison.
The prison is infamous for a daring helicopter escape in 1987. The breakout remains the only one of its type to have been carried out in the United Kingdom. On 10 December 1987 at 3.15 pm, John Kendall and Sydney Draper were sprung from Gartree's exercise yard with the aid of a hijacked Bell 206 helicopter ..Kendall was a gangland boss serving eight years while Draper was serving a life sentence for murder.The escape caused great controversy at the time and led to a tightening of security at the jail. Kendall was recaptured 10 days later, but Draper remained on the run for another 13 months.
In 1992 Gartree was downgraded from a category A to a category B training prison. Since then the population of life sentenced prisoners at Gartree grew, and in 1997 the prison's role changed to that of a main life prisoner centre.