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'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island

Lives Less Ordinary

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The Prison Break

JVET began to think differently and when we are now into his fourth year at Manus he was served with notice that he was either to be sent to another detention facility or transported back to Myanmar. So I decided it might be time to take things on my own hand and I suddenly started seeing myself in parallel with the character and the prison break. And if it's misspent you, well I mean his binge TV watching was about coming very handy as he began to plot his escape. Only one person had ever managed to break out of Manus and he was caught soon afterwards so if JVET were to succeed he could leave nothing to chanceSo he got to work using all the

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