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.

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Why teamwork is key to preventing inmate escapes
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It is predictable that the bad guys will try to escape from jail, but through officer teamwork, it is preventable. In this tip, risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordan Graham discusses what that teamwork should entail.

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NOLA prisoner threatens to jump from roof
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Deputies convinced Devontay Jenkins, 18, to come down from the roof after he escaped from a holding area.
Ind. inmates escape jail through hole
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The inmates were captured on security camera making their escape through a 2x2 hole in the interior and exterior walls of their cell.
Escaped Ky. inmate posts video to Facebook, which leads to capture
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Escaped Ky. inmate posts video to Facebook, which leads to capture
Ex-correctional officer: NY prison escape could have been stopped
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A former prison guard who worked at Clinton Correctional Facility, from which convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped, says he knew the fugitives, as well as the couple now at the center of the investigation, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.
Former corrections officer speaks about prison break
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Former correctional officer Joe Puma described the Clinton Correctional Facility as "the most secure facility with the best staff."
Son of correctional officer defends mother as manhunt continues
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The police search intensifies for Clinton Correctional Facility escapees around the town of Willsboro in upstate New York.
Former inmate comments on NY prisoner escape
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Rapper and former inmate Maino compares the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility to a scene out of the Shawshank Redemption.
5 worst prison escape attempts
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Funniest Prison Escape Fails. These terrible escape attempts are all funny as hell. Horrible escape attempts that were bound to fail! But it makes for a funny fail video for us so keep trying prisoners!
Escaped Calif. sex offender captured in Miss.
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A Santa Clara County jail inmate who escaped from a San Jose hospital last month was driven by his brother to a bus station in Reno, Nevada, and made it to Mississippi before he was captured while fleeing from a residence on Tuesday, U.S. Marshals Service officials announced Wednesday.
Jail break: Gwinnett jailers search for missing dog
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Gwinnett County jailers are desperate to find a missing and very special inmate -- a dog.
Surveillance video captures escape attempt by two inmates from Jefferson County Jail
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Two inmates who were waiting to be booked into the Jefferson County Jail on aggravated robbery charges decided to leave the facility instead.
Accused jail escapee robs bank, bitten by police dog
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Stockton police said a man they arrested Saturday for bank robbery was an escapee from the San Joaquin County Jail.
Neighbors ‘in shock’ after wanted prison escapee found living in Kokomo
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An Ohio fugitive on the lam for 22 years is back behind bars after he was found living in Howard County under a fake name.
Prisoners of 'ingenious' 1962 escape may be alive
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If they had timed their escape just right, three prisoners who slipped out of Alcatraz more than 50 years ago on a raft made from raincoats would have had a chance of survival, new research shows.
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