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The Libby Prison escape was a prison escape from Libby Prison, a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia in February 1864 that saw over 100 Union prisoners-of-war escape from captivity. It was one of the most successful prison breaks of the American Civil War .
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]
One of the men, Martin Gurule (TDCJ# 999063 [12]), [10] successfully escaped and was later found dead in a location near the prison grounds. [13] TDCJ officials said that he drowned on the day of his escape. [14] According to the TDCJ, the prison escape attempt had hastened the agency's decision to move death row inmates to a new location. [13]
In the Maze Prison escape on 25 September 1983, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from HMP Maze in Northern Ireland, the biggest prison escape in Irish or British history. On January 18, 1985, Ludwig Fresco, a convicted drug dealer, escaped from the Hague Penitentiary Institution by impersonating his own lawyer. He acquired ...
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 ...
On October 12, 2017, Pasquotank Correctional Institution became the site of the deadliest escape attempt in North Carolina history when four inmates used tools gathered from the prison's sewing factory to stab and bludgeon four facility employees to death, including two correctional officers, a correction enterprise manager, and a maintenance ...
The British escape officer decided that the glider should be available for use in case the SS ordered the massacre of the prisoners as a way to get a message out to approaching American troops. The glider was approaching completion when the American Army liberated the prisoners on 16 April 1945.
She was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment with a non-parole period of 7 years. Dudko served her time at the Mulawa Women's Prison and was released on parole on 9 May 2006. [1] During her time in prison, Dudko wrote some 4,500 love letters to Killick.