Escapes
Escapes are one of the most critical challenges faced by correctional facilities. This directory provides articles and resources on escape prevention, response strategies, and analysis of past incidents. Understanding the causes and methods of escapes is essential for improving security measures and reducing the risk of such events. Explore our section on Correctional Facility Security for insights into strengthening facility security.
Personnel, aircraft from the Border Patrol are joining the manhunt on Friday for the escapee who “crab walked his way up a wall” to escape
Manhunt for Danelo Cavalcante continues into its second week and a tower officer has been put on leave as part of the escape investigation
State troopers leading search for Danelo Cavalcante are confident “we will contain him and we will capture him”
Climbed through a section of the jail’s chain-link fence
Both DOC and law enforcement officials endorsed plans court clerks have floated to create a secure, online transmission system for court orders between state attorneys, the DOC and clerks
Florida Department of Law Enforcement alerted top corrections and law enforcement officials to the escape scheme
Police were called early Sunday after someone spotted four men in orange jumpsuits outside the jail
Inmates made a clean getaway Sunday after prying open a maintenance hatch in their shower
GBI has been tasked with finding out just who that driver was and how deeply he or she was involved in the scam
Computers have been seized and will be analyzed to find out who is behind the scheme, how large it is and whether there are more escapees on the loose
Inmate was walking with 4 other trusties and one CO from the minimum security facility to kitchen of main jail around 3 a.m. for breakfast duty when he ran away
FDLE officials say arrests are imminent
Authorities have “uncovered key facts and targeted several suspects”
Charles Walker was told that the paperwork was in place to send him back to the Franklin Correctional Institution
Authorities say Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker were let out of a Panhandle prison because of forged documents
Changes will be made to the way his department handles court orders modifying prisoner sentences
20 law officers surprised them at Coconut Grove Motor Inn on Saturday
Convicted killers were back in custody and being grilled by authorities after they were captured without incident
Judge: “It was a surprise and aggravating to use my name to get out of jail”
Authorities are hunting for Charles Bernard Walker and Joseph Ivan Jenkins
Inmates Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, serving lengthy sentences for separate murders in Orlando more than a decade ago
Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins were set free after fraudulent paperwork showed they were up for release
Inmate said in a jail interview that he just wanted to go outside and smoke a cigarette
Meth lab found at hide-out site
“There was a small area that the builders and the designers and the jail staff and myself included, had overlooked as being a weakness in our security, and he exploited that weakness”
Allegedly pushed the officer down, grabbed his keys, pushed him into a cell and locked the door
Inmate simply walked away from work program, still wearing shirt that said ‘inmate’ on the back
It was a mix of mistakes by guards and the quick thinking of the inmate
Inmate: “Uh, yes, ma’am, you’re probably not going to believe this, but I’m a prisoner in a van, and I’m here with a couple of these other cats”
Escaped from California prison in 1977 has been caught 36 years later and some 1,600 miles away
Highlights problems with private prison transport companies that don’t face the same scrutiny as state corrections systems
COs inexplicably left prisoners alone in a transport van with the keys