What's the difference between prison escapes in the movies and in real life? In the movies, we...  ...real life? In the movies, we usually root for the escapee . If the prisoner isn't the main character, the film wouldn't spend...  ...ter, the film wouldn't spend time followi...

(Unrelated photo by Nathan Bittinger)Wesley Evans...  ...r treatment for a hand injury. While there, Evans escaped .When police caught up with him, they found him in...  ...ay now face additional charges as a result of his escape

Harry Houdini was known as the world’s great...  ...y Houdini was known as the world’s greatest escape artist. But he was never kept confined as a prisoner of the state, where the stakes are higher. Some f...  ...k. Paddy almost killed himself during his second prison...

(Image: WDKY Fox 56)John Wayne, also known as Mich...  ...Y Fox 56)John Wayne, also known as Michael Fleet, escaped from a prison in Kentucky last week. Or that's the impression y...  ...ngton, Kentucky. It displayed mugshots of the two escaped pr...

In 1944-45, 12 inmates at Eastern State Penitentia...  ...nnsylvania dug a tunnel with spoons to make their escape . Bank robber Willie Sutton took credit for the sc...  ...and another 100 feet out beyond the walls of the prison . They removed dirt by concealing it in their pock...  ...kets and scattering it in...

Since 1986 there have been 11 helicopter-assisted...  ...een 11 helicopter-assisted jailbreaks from French prisons . Three of them involved the same man.BACKGROUND:...  ...e shot a guard 14 times. Payet was sent to Luynes Prison in southwest France to await trial. ESCAPE ! On Oc...

What we've got here is failure to lose weight. Tha...  ...e done before boring a hole through the wall of a prison in Ceres, Brazil. That or dig a bigger hole. Raf...  ...onvict, tried to follow one of his smaller fellow prisoners who had already made a bid for freedom through th...  ...s left with his upper bo...

The wife of a prisoner in Spain sent fake but official-looking faxes to...  ...taxi. Police said Serna used the same trick to escape from Valdemoro jail in October. Link | Photo...

Police in Argentina are on the lookout for two escaped prisoners . Due to a manpower shortage, only two of the fif...  ...ortage, only two of the fifteen guard towers at a prison were manned. One had a crudely-made dummy inside...  ...crudely-made dummy inside which did no...

In 1939, a young Polish officer named Slavomir Raw...  ...ying. Three years later, he recruited a few other prisoners to escape in what can only be called an epic journey to fre...