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Two prisoners escape from Pentonville prison in London



Two prisoners, one of whom was recently found guilty of attempted murder, have escaped from Pentonville prison in London.

The fugitives, who reportedly fooled prison staff by leaving makeshift mannequins in their beds, were named by Scotland Yard as Matthew Baker, 28, convicted two weeks ago of attempted murder, and James Whitlock, 31, who was on remand after being charged with conspiracy to burgle cash machines.

It is understood the pair used diamond-tipped cutting equipment to break through their cell bars before scaling an outer perimeter wall. A male visitor to the prison, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was told the runaways had folded bedsheets into the shape of mannequins to fool staff into believing they were still asleep. A female visitor, who also wished to remain anonymous, said a prisoner had told her the two men escaped through a cell window on the fifth floor. She said it was rumoured they had used bedsheets to lower themselves down. She said: “They cut one of the bars and then they came down through the window. They are assuming that it was probably bedsheets and it was at night.”

It is assumed that the breakout happened during the night and the prison authorities only discovered the mannequins on Monday morning. The two escapees had been held in the same cell in Pentonville’s G wing.

Escapes from inside prisons have become extremely rare in recent years, with only two recorded in 2015-16 and no more than two being recorded in any financial year since 2007-08. But the Pentonville escape comes just two weeks after an escape from a prison in the north-west, adding to the deepening prisons crisis facing the justice secretary, Liz Truss.

The Prison Governors Association said the Pentonville escape marked a new low for the Prison Service as it was “an institutional failure in one of our most core functions – keeping prisoners in custody”.

“The old Victorian prisons are squalid and vermin-infested and governors do not have direct access to the funds to tackle it. Prison cells have been vandalised and prisoners have access to drugs and mobile phones, some delivered by drones,” the PGA said.


How Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Prison

The tunnel through which they escaped


It is the first ever time when prisoners of this maximum security prison were able to successfully attempt an escape.

Their names are Richard Matt and David Sweat (convicted murderers). What they did was cutting through the walls in their cells, scaling a cat walk and coming out through a manhole cover a block away. There were a series of underground tunnels that led from the prison to the manhole.

In order not to reveal their missing they used hooded sweatshirts and other materials to create decoys to fool the guards who run their checks every 2 hours.

The prison officials admit that some tools were used in this creative plot. And these hand tools were obtained within the Clinton facility where many contractors come to do jobs all the time.

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 in that day.

Six convicts, including three murderers, escaped from the Joliet Correctional Center early today, apparently by cutting through metal bars, the state police said. One was captured later in the day.

The escapees, who had been separated from other inmates as disciplinary problems, were considered extremely dangerous and may have been armed with cutting tools when they fled, the authorities said.

A search for the men with dogs and an airplane was called off because they apparently separated, said Trooper Thomas Miller of the State Police.

The recaptured man, Tommy Munoz, was seized about 5:30 P.M. at his cousin's Chicago home by law-enforcement officers who had staked it out, said a State Department of Corrections spokesman, Nic Howell. The 22-year-old convict was serving a sentence for narcotics violations and intimidation.

The state police originally reported that the men were discovered missing at 4:55 A.M., but a spokesman for the Department of Corrections later said the discovery was made after an inmate count at 7 A.M.

About 100 corrections officers trained to deal with escapes helped the state police and local law-enforcement officers in the search.

The inmates cut through bars on their cells, broke a window, cut through bars outside the window and climbed a fence to get away, said Mr. Howell.

The prison, which has been overcrowded in recent years, is one of the state's four maximum-security prisons and one of two in Joliet. It houses 1,300 inmates, 500 more than it was built to hold.

The escapees still at large were Daniel Johnson, 24. of Buru, Tenn., imprisoned for murder; James F. Allen, 40, of Chicago, three murders; Dave Rodriguez, 21, of Chicago, murder; Terry W. Colburn, 21, of Bloomington, Ill., burglary, and Ronald Roach, in his 20's, of Wyoming, Ill., burglary.

Based on the NYTimes article

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, officials said.

The injured inmate, 25-year-old James A. Duffin, was reported in critical condition at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.

The two other prisoners made it to the ground but were captured about 200 feet away from the building, said Lou Ganim, a spokesman for the State Department of Correctional Services.

He said guards had noticed the makeshift rope hanging from a seventh-floor window shortly after 5 A.M. The three inmates were awaiting court appearances in New York City, Mr. Ganim said.

They were among about 200 prisoners lodged by court order at the 1,000-bed facility since last fall to relieve overcrowding in New York City jails. Two prisoners were killed there in separate brawls early Saturday.

Based on the NYTimes article

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 for crimes like murder and rape, may have escaped two hours before correctional officers at the Gander Hill prison noticed. Two were recaptured this morning about 15 miles from the prison.

The inmates, who were housed in a high security area, cut a bar out of a cell window with a hacksaw blade, then dropped about 25 feet on a rope made of six bed sheets. They fled across a recreational yard and scaled a 12-foot fence topped with razor wire, which they covered with a blanket.

The escape was discovered around 9:30 P.M. The inmates, however, could have fled as early as 7:15 P.M., said Stanley Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Adult Prisons.

The authorities said it appeared that the correctional officer supervising the inmates did not take the required head count at 8 P.M. and that he did not make sure the bars on the windows were secure. The officer was not identified by the authorities.

Patricia Bailey, a representative of the correctional officers, who have long complained about understaffing, said today that the escape would not have occurred had there been more than one officer assigned to the unit. But Mr. Taylor said the housing unit was designed to be staffed by one person.

Two of the fugitives who fled Monday, Santise Robinson and Robert D. Nave, were captured shortly after 9 A.M. by the New Castle County Police. Mr. Robinson, 24, a New York City drug dealer, was serving five life terms plus 137 years, for a murder in Wilmington. Mr. Nave, 34, of New Castle, was serving a life term for burglary.

Based on the NYTimes article

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, flew into a Federal prison and spirited his lover to freedom was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.

The escapee, Ron McIntosh, 42 years old, landed the helicopter Nov. 5 in the yard of the Federal prison at Dublin, 45 miles east of San Francisco, and flew off with an inmate there, Samantha Lopez.

They were captured 10 days later in a Sacramento-area shopping mall while picking up a set of wedding rings.

Mr. McIntosh is ''the man that I know and that I love deeply,'' Miss Lopez told Federal District Judge Eugene Lynch in a sentencing hearing.

Judge Lynch sentenced her to five years in prison, to be added to the 50-year sentence she is serving for a 1981 bank robbery in Georgia.

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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 were leaving the prison, authorities said. The escape was foiled when a prison guard noticed the inmates and trapped them between two security gates.

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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 found less than a mile from the prison, leading the state police to believe that three of the escapees were picked up along a road near Interstate 95, said Sgt. Scott O'Mara, a spokesman for the state police.

The fourth escaped prisoner probably went a different way, as state police tracking dogs followed a different scent, Sergeant O'Mara said.

The men used clothing to cover the razor wire they climbed over, Mr. Flower said.

Based on the NYTimes article

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, city corrections officials said.

A man accused of burglary became the first inmate to escape from New York City's prison barge when he crawled to freedom yesterday through an air-conditioner opening behind the barge's kitchen, city corrections officials said.

The inmate, identified as Paul Buttafuoco, 23 years old, of 204 East Seventh Avenue in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, was discovered missing from his work detail in the barge's mess hall at 6:30 P.M. yesterday, according to a city corrections spokeswoman, Ruby Ryles.

''Our initial investigation indicates that he escaped through a partial opening that was made in preparation for the installation of an air-conditioner behind the kitchen,'' Ms. Ryles said.

Mr. Buttafuoco, who was awaiting trial on a charge of third-degree burglary, was first imprisoned in the city correctional system on April 9 and had been transferred to the prison barge, which was opened in mid-March, on April 27, Ms. Ryles said.

A total of 191 inmates are currently housed on the barge, a minimum-security jail docked at Pier 36 on the East River near South Street in Manhattan, she said.

Based on the NYTimes article