There have been many famous escapes throughout history.In 1756 Italian writer Giacomo Casanova famously managed to escape from one of the most secure prisons of his time: the Doge's Palace.The Great...
Most Famous historical escapes
Escape from a maximum-security Texas prison
The brazen escape of seven inmates from a maximum-security Texas prison in 2001 has quickly become the stuff of a crime thriller whose ending is not yet known. The escapees remain at large, elusive despite...
6 Convicts, Including 3 Murderers, Escape From a Prison in Illinois
LEAD: Six convicts, including three murderers, escaped from the Joliet Correctional Center on February 12, 1990, apparently by cutting through metal bars, the state police said. One was captured later...
4 Delaware Inmates Escape Using Prison Sewer System
Four inmates, including two convicted of murderer and one convicted of rape, cut their way through a steel-reinforced window and escaped through a prison sewer system on December 2, 1986 at the Delaware...
5 Women Escape From State Prison
Five female inmates apparently squeezed between steel bars on a window to escape in December, 1984 from a maximum-security section of the Niantic Correctional Institution, the state's only prison for...
Escape by 3 Foiled At L.I. Prison
Guards at the Long Island State Correctional Facility foiled an escape on February 14, 1984 by three inmates, one of whom plunged 45 feet to the ground when a rope made of bed sheets and blankets broke,...
8 Use Sheets to Escape a Prison
Eight inmates dropped a rope made of sheets from a second-floor cell window and then scaled a razor-wire fence to escape a state prison in November, 1994.The inmates, four of whom were serving life terms...
Police officer killer escaped from the maximum security prison
A man convicted of trying to kill a police officer escaped from the maximum security prison here in September, 1993.Another man who escaped at the same time was captured a few hours later in the nearby...
Lovers Sentenced in Escape From Prison in a Helicopter
LEAD: A prison escapee who hijacked a helicopter, flew into a Federal prison and spirited his lover to freedom was sentenced to 25 years in prison in July 1987.A prison escapee who hijacked a helicopter,...
Prison Escape Thwarted
Two inmates one of them a murderer -- came close to escaping from the maximum-security Somers State Prison on February 7, 1992 by cutting through window bars in a chapel and mingling with visitors who...
Four Escape Prison By Cutting a Fence
Four prisoners escaped from the J. B. Gates Correctional Facility on November 22, 1992 after cutting through a fence and scaling over razor wire, authorities said.Three sets of blue prison clothing were...
Man Is First to Escape From Prison Barge
LEAD: A man accused of burglary became the first inmate to escape from New York City's prison barge when he crawled to freedom in April 1988 through an air-conditioner opening behind the barge's kitchen,...
