The story of David Ford, who was sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 16 for killing a friend in a fight. Now 43 and fed up with waiting for freedom, he has gone on the run, living for secret meetings with his family and campaigning for a fairer parole system.

Documentary on some long-time inmates of Britain's mental hospitals who, it is revealed as such hospitals are gradually being emptied, were sent away simply for being deaf, pregnant or unwanted.