DescriptionBanksys escaping convict on Reading Gaol (geograph 6770032).jpg
English: Banksy's escaping convict on Reading Gaol. The mural of an escaping prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde - appeared on the walls of the disused Reading jail on Monday 01 March 2021. Reading prison famously housed Irish writer Wilde between 1895 and 1897 and was immortalised by his poem Ballad of Reading Gaol, which reflected on the brutality of the Victorian penal system.
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