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Escape of the prisoners from the Limoeiro, at Lisbon, 29 April 1847, during the Patuleia civil war Escape from prison in Greenville, Ohio, USA (1909) 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 ...
Anarchist activist Peter Kropotkin managed to escape from a low-security prison in Saint Petersburg. He hid himself in one of the finest restaurants there and later moved to England. [3] The notorious outlaw Billy the Kid managed to escape from prison in 1881, but was captured and shot by Pat Garrett only a few months later.
The escape was the subject of a television movie in 2017, New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell. Penelope Ann Miller starred as Joyce Mitchell, with Matt played by Myk Watford and Joe Anderson as Sweat. It was directed and written by Stephen Tolkin, and aired on the Lifetime Network. [50] [51]
Richard William “Rick” Matt (June 25, 1966 – June 26, 2015) [1] was an American murderer known for his prison escape, the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape.. A native of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area where he grew up in foster homes, Matt was a career criminal who had already served several prison terms for various crimes before he and an accomplice robbed ...
A man awaiting trial on felony drug charges escaped Sunday from a central Pennsylvania jail, Hollidaysburg police wrote in a statement. Isaiah R. Tilghman, 33, escaped between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m ...
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...
Richard Lee McNair (born December 19, 1958) is an American convicted murderer known for his ability to escape and elude capture. [1] In 1987, McNair murdered one man and shot a second man four times during a botched robbery.
Mark DeFriest (born August 18, 1960), known as the Houdini of Florida, is an American man known for his repeated escapes from prison, having successfully done so 7 times.. Born in rural Florida, he was arrested for the first time in 1978, serving for a ye