Escapes
The Escapes topic features news, tips, columns, and expert opinion on a wide range of prison escape issues, from identifying and addressing potential security gaps to officer safety concerns.
The lack of security upgrades “is very concerning,” the mayor of Baton Rouge said. “We are dealing with a facility established in 1952, designed to rehabilitate youth for less serious crimes”
“Police at da door baby I’m goin back to jail,” one of the escaped inmates said in a text following a Grubhub order
The five juveniles turned violent when they attempted to escape the Swanson Center for Youth, a senator said
“We are grateful that this last escapee has been captured,” Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said
The arrest was made nearly a month after the four inmates escaped through a broken window and a cut fence at the Bibb County jail
In the latest incident, a group of six juveniles attacked a staff member, creating an opening for a young man to take the staff member’s keys and then scale a fence
The arrest comes more than two weeks after the four inmates went through a broken window around 3 a.m. Oct. 16, according to Bibb Sheriff David Davis
Video footage showed a car that had been just outside the Bibb County jail hours before the escape and appeared to show someone tampering with the fence
Officers looking for four men who escaped last week found a murder suspect who had been missing for more than 7 months after supposedly being kidnapped
It is important that all staff know and follow their agency’s policies on security, inspections, contraband and escapes
The prison has made changes to the way it handles inmates at risk of escape, including assigning one or two COs to monitor inmates when they are outside of their cells
Authorities believe the inmates broke out of the Bibb detention center through a damaged window and a cut fence
The inmate said he “would not have attempted to escape if the towers had been operational,” a report says
Five new details of the couple’s 11-day escape revealed on new episode of “Catch Us If You Can”
The never-before-seen letters from the inmate to the CO, as well as dash cam and body cam footage, will be featured in the show
