These hugely original photographs intimately record MacIndoe's downward trajectory from professional photographer with a flourishing career to struggling opiate addict, a journey of anguish and isolation that was to culminate in an arrest for drug possession and a four - month stint in New York's notorious Riker's Island prison and five months in
an American immigration detention centre before he got clean.
The Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris, whose constituency covers the Kidlington
detention centre, said the escape was the second major incident since foreign national ex-prisoners were mixed with
immigration detainees, and also since management of the
centre was transferred to the
American company GEO.