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...

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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,...

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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...

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