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- A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, jail escape, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers.
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- The four escapes of Yoshie Shiratori. Japanese gambler Yoshie Shiratori is the worldwide GOAT of prison escapes—but he sucked at staying out of prison. A professional gambler and thief, Shiratori was first imprisoned in 1936 after being accused of murder and robbery.
- Escape via ouija board. In 1918, at the height of World War I, British officer E. H. Jones found himself imprisoned at Yozgad, a POW camp in a remote part of Turkey.
- The Alcatraz escape. Today, Alcatraz is a National Historic Landmark that functions as a tourist attraction, but back when it was a running prison, it was a beast—a seemingly inescapable jail on rocky island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.
- Timothy Leary’s psychedelic prison break. On January 21, 1970, Harvard-psychologist-turned-LSD-evangelist Timothy Leary was sentenced to twenty years in jail for marijuana possession.
Many prisons have security features such as CCTV, motion detectors, barred windows, massive walls, barbed wire, electric fencing, and armed guards. Despite these and other obstacles, some prisoners will exhaust the limits of their wit and ingenuity and take every opportunity they can to escape.
- William Maxwell
- Jack Sheppard
- Alfred George Hinds
- Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera
- Pascal Payet
- John Dillinger
- Richard Matt and David Sweat
- Frank Abagnale
- Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin
- Frederick Mors
Scottish nobleman William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, found himself locked up in the Tower of London after taking part in the Jacobite rising of 1715. Sentenced to death, Maxwell managed to escape the day before his execution thanks to a plan concocted by his wife, Lady Winifred Herbert. Arriving in London under the pretext of trying to ask for...
A notorious thief, Jack Sheppard was a renowned prison escape artist who once managed to break out of jail four times in one year. Initially a carpenter by trade, Sheppard preferred a life of crime but it wasn’t long before he found himself arrested in April of 1724. Placed behind bars on the top floor of St Giles’s Roundhouse, Sheppard smashed thr...
“Houdini” Hinds was sentenced to 12 years behind bars for a jewelry heist in 1953. Held at England’s Nottingham Prison, Alfred George Hinds managed to sneak through a locked door and scale the 20-foot prison wall to freedom. He was on the run for 248 days before his recapture. Hinds brought a lawsuit against the police for wrongful arrest, which wa...
Once the most powerful drug lord in the world, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is now locked up in the American maximum security prison ADX Florence. He is serving a life sentence for a litany of charges related to drug trafficking and firearm offenses. But this isn’t the first time El Chapo has seen the inside of a prison cell. Way back in 1993 he was a...
The brash nature of Pascal Payet’s escapes from prison has led to several TV shows reenacting his daring prison breaks. Arrested in January 1999 after robbing an armored car in 1997 where a guard was killed, Payet escaped prison on three occasions, each time via helicopter. All three prison breaks involved a helicopter flown or hijacked by his asso...
American bank robber John Dillinger is another crime figure who has entered pop culture. There are many books, movies, and TV shows based on his exploits, with Dillinger managing to escape police custody twice during his short reign of terror. On August 14, 1933, Dillinger was tracked by police after robbing a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Housed at the ...
Criminals Richard Matt and David Sweat were behind one of the most notorious prison escapes of recent years. The two met while serving time in Clinton Correctional Facility. Matt was serving a 25-year to life sentence for second-degree murder while Sweat was serving life without parole for murder. The two struck up a friendship with prison employee...
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Steven Spielberg’s hit movie Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale is a conman who evaded authorities for several years during the 70s. A fraudster, Abagnale posed as both a pilot and a doctor to fund his lavish lifestyle but was finally caught in 1969 after a tip-off from an Air France flight attendant. Sentenced to...
When it first opened in 1934, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was seen as inescapable. Located on an island in the choppy San Francisco Bay, if inmates somehow managed to get past security and scale the large walls surrounding the prison, they had to deal with the shark-infested waters separating them from freedom. That didn’t stop Frank Morris, Clar...
Frederick Mors was a nasty piece of work. Working at the German Odd Fellows’ Home in Unionport, Mors killed eight elderly patients who he was meant to be looking after. He used arsenic and chloroform to kill his victims and claimedhe was “putting them out of their misery.” When he was arrested for his crimes, Mors was happy to cooperate and freely ...
A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, jail escape, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers.
Dec 1, 2021 · From the 1962 Alcatraz escape to Henri Charrière's daring breakout from Devil's Island, these are the world's most famous prison escapes. Some prisoners dug tunnels while others simply talked their way out, but they all managed to expose serious flaws in prison security that made them legends.
Mar 11, 2019 · To find out how inmates plan and orchestrate jail breaks, I spoke to three escapees: reformed heroin smuggler David McMillan, Glaswegian gangster John Steele and former weed dealer Scott...
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Sep 18, 2023 · Prison escapes in America: How common are they and what's the real risk? By Tom Hanson. September 18, 2023 / 6:00 PM EDT / CBS News. After the recent high-profile escape of a convicted murderer...
