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...
