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Escape of the prisoners from the Limoeiro, at Lisbon, 29 April 1847, during the Patuleia civil war
A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers. Escaping from prison is also a criminal offense in some countries, such as the United States and Canada, and it is highly likely to result in time being added to the inmate's sentence, as well as the inmate being placed under increased security that is most likely a maximum security prison or supermax prison. In Germany, and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage).
Many prisons use security features such as CCTV, perimeter sensors, barred windows, high walls, barbed wire, razor wire, and electric fencing to prevent escapes. Even natural geographic features can play significant roles in preventing escapes; historically, mountains and islands were chosen as ideal settings for prison construction, given their significance in creating territorial isolation from outside worlds.
A prisonescape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways...
list of historically infamous prisonescapes, and of people who escaped multiple times: There have been many infamous escapes throughout history: In 1244...
maximum-security prisons in the United States. Prior to the completion of its granite wall in the 1920s, the prison saw numerous escape attempts; the first...
Maze Prisonescape (known to Irish republicans as the Great Escape) took place on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. HM Prison Maze...
commit, while Scofield devises an elaborate plan to help his brother escapeprison and clear his name. Along with creator Paul Scheuring, the series is...
on remand awaiting trial on terrorism charges, escaped from HM Prison Wandsworth in London. The escape triggered a nationwide police search and delays...
have been multiple prisonescapes where an inmate escapes by means of a helicopter. One of the earliest instances was the escape of Joel David Kaplan...
The prisonescape of Casey White took place on April 29, 2022, when White, who was awaiting trial in a capital murder case, escaped the Lauderdale County...
HM Prison Parkhurst escape took place on 3 January, 1995, where three Category A prisoners, Matthew Williams, Keith Rose and Andrew Rodger, escaped from...
Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 Australian prison film co-written and directed by Francis Annan, based on the real-life prisonescape by three political...
Patrick Hannan is an Irish prison fugitive who holds the record for the longest escape from custody, having escaped HM Prison The Verne, Isle of Portland...
convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Cavalcante escaped from Chester County Prison, triggering a manhunt by police...
prisoner. He is best known for his 1979 escape from Pretoria Local Prison (part of the Pretoria Central Prison complex), along with Stephen Lee and Alex...
having escaped from prison four different times, making him an anti-hero in Japanese culture. There is a memorial to Shiratori at the Abashiri Prison Museum...
pipe to escape from the prison into the city sewer, with tools obtained from two cooperating prison employees. Nearly three weeks after the escape, Matt...
guard's walkway, he made his way across the rooftop and out of the prison grounds. This escape earned Abbott his lifelong notoriety as a criminal genius, and...
"Tilly" Mitchell, a married prison worker who becomes romantically entangled with both Matt and Sweat and aids in their escape Paul Dano as David Sweat,...
Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape occurred on 31 October 1973 when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in...
handcuffs. He escaped a second time by crawling through a ventilation duct. In his last escape from a federal prison on April 5, 2006, he escaped by concealing...
United States. He later participated in the first successful escape from Reidsville State Prison death row with three other death row inmates, but was killed...
rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. He...
they enter prison. These categories are based on a combination of the type of crime committed, the length of sentence, the likelihood of escape, and the...
acquitted. Privacky was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He was shot and killed during a failed prisonescape attempt with two other inmates at Kinross...
became the first prisoner to escape from the C Max part of the prison complex. He was recaptured two weeks after his escape. The complex was renamed Kgosi...
Prison break may refer to: Prison breakout, a prisonescapePrison Break, a 2005–2017 American TV serial drama Prison Break: The Final Break, a 2009 American...
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