DOCSLIB.ORG

Prison Escapes 1

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Prison Escapes 1 Prison Escapes 1 Maze Prison Escape In the biggest prison escape in British history, on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 38 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners, who had been convicted of offenses including murder and causing explosions, escaped from H-Block 7 (H7) of the prison. One prison officer died of a heart attack as a result of the escape and twenty others were injured, including two who were shot with guns that had been smuggled into the prison. HM Prison Maze was considered one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. In addition to 15-foot fences, each H-Block was encompassed by an 18-foot concrete wall topped with barbed wire, and all gates on the complex were made of solid steel and electronically operated. Shortly after 2:30, the prisoners took control of the H-block holding the prison guards hostage at gunpoint. Some of the prisoners took the guards clothing and car keys in order to help with their escape. At 3:25, a truck bringing food supplies arrived and the prisoners told the driver that he was going to help them escape. They tied his foot to the clutch and told him where to drive. At 3:50 the truck left the H- block, and soon after the prison, carrying all 38 men. Over the next few days, 19 escapees were caught. The remaining escapees were assisted by the IRA in finding hiding places. Some of the group ended up in the USA but were later found and extradited. Due to politics in Northern Ireland, none of the remaining escapees are being actively sought and some have been given amnesties. Note the wires strung across the yard in the picture above – this is to prevent helicopters from landing due to another escape attempt at Maze Prison. [Image Source | Wikipedia] 9 Alfred Hinds “Alfie” Hinds was a British criminal and escape artist who, while serving a 12 year prison sentence for robbery, successfully broke out of three high security prisons. Despite the dismissal of thirteen of his appeals to higher courts, he was eventually able to gain a pardon using his knowledge of the British legal system. After being sentenced to 12 years in prison for a jewelry robbery, Hinds escaped from Nottingham prison by sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall for which he became known in the press as “Houdini” Hinds. After 6 months he was found and arrested. After his arrest, Hinds brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and successfully used the incident as a means to plan his next escape by having a padlock smuggled in to him while at the Law Courts. Two guards escorted him to the toilet, but when they removed his handcuffs Alfie bundled the men into the cubicle and snapped the padlock onto screw eyes that his accomplices had earlier fixed to the door. He escaped into the crowd on Fleet Street but was captured at an airport five hours later. Hinds would make his third escape from Chelmsford Prison less than a year later. While eluding Scotland Yard, Hinds continued to plead his innocence sending memorandums to British MPs and granting interviews and taped recordings to the press. He would continue to appeal his arrest and, following a technicality in which prison escapes are not listed as misdemeanors within British law, his final appeal before the House of Lords in 1960 was denied after a three hour argument by Hinds before his return to serve 6 years in Parkhurst Prison. Pictured above is Nottingham Prison – the first prison that Hinds escaped from. [Wikipedia] 8 The Texas Seven The Texas 7 was a group of prisoners who escaped from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas on December 13, 2000. They were apprehended January 21-23, 2001 as a direct result of the television show America’s Most Wanted. On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas town of Kenedy. Using several well-planned ploys, the seven convicts overpowered and restrained nine civilian maintenance supervisors, four correctional officers and three uninvolved inmates at approximately 11:20 a.m. The escape occurred during the slowest period of the day when there would be less surveillance of certain locations like the maintenance area — during lunch and at count time. Most of these plans involved one of the offenders calling someone over, while another hit the unsuspecting person on the head from behind. Once the victim was subdued, the offenders would remove some of his clothing, tie him up, gag him and place him in an electrical room behind a locked door. Eleven prison workers and three uninvolved inmates were bound and gagged. The attackers stole clothing, credit cards, and identification from their victims. The group also impersonated prison officers on the phone and created false stories to ward off suspicion from authorities. They eventually made their way to the prison maintenance pickup-truck which they used to escape from the prison grounds. The remaining 5 living members of the group are all on death row awaiting death by lethal injection. Of the other two, one committed suicide and one has already been executed. [Wikipedia] 7 Alfréd Wetzler Wetzler was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Wetzler is known for the report that he and his fellow escapee, Rudolf Vrba, compiled about the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp – a ground plan of the camp, construction details of the gas chambers, crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Zyklon gas. The 32-page Vrba-Wetzler report, as it became known, was the first detailed report about Auschwitz to reach the West that the Allies regarded as credible. The evidence eventually led to the bombing of several government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials who were instrumental in the railway deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. The deportations halted, saving up to 120,000 Hungarian Jews. Wetzler escaped with a fellow Jew named Rudolf Vrba. With the help of the camp underground, at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 7, 1944 — the eve of Passover — the two men climbed inside a hollowed-out hiding place in a wood pile that was being stored to build the “Mexico” section for the new arrivals. It was outside Birkenau’s barbed-wire inner perimeter, but inside an external perimeter the guards kept erected during the day. The other prisoners placed boards around the hollowed-out area to hide the men, then sprinkled the area with pungent Russian tobacco soaked in gasoline to fool the guards’ dogs. The two remained in hiding for 4 nights – to avoid recapture. On April 10, wearing Dutch suits, overcoats, and boots they had taken from the camp, they made their way south, walking parallel to the So?a river, heading for the Polish border with Slovakia 80 miles (133 km.) away, guiding themselves using a page from a child’s atlas that Vrba had found in the warehouse. You can read their report on Auschwitz here. [Wikipedia] 6 S?awomir Rawicz Rawicz was a Polish soldier who was arrested by Soviet occupation troops after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. When the Soviet Union and Germany took over Poland, Rawicz returned to Pi?sk where NKVD arrested him on November 19, 1939. He was taken to Moscow. He was first sent to Kharkov for interrogation, and then after trial he was sent to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. He claims to have successfully resisted all attempts to torture a confession out of him in prison. He was sentenced, ostensibly for spying, to 25 years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. He was transported, alongside thousands of others, to Irkutsk and made to walk to Camp 303, 650 km south of the Arctic Circle, to build the camp from the ground up. On 9 April 1941, Rawicz claimed that he and his six allies escaped in a middle of a blizzard. They rushed to the south, avoiding towns in fear they would be betrayed, but apparently they were not actively pursued. They also met an additional fugitive, Polish woman Krystyna. Nine days later they crossed the Lena River. They walked around Lake Baikal and crossed to Mongolia. Fortunately, people they encountered were friendly and hospitable. During the crossing of the Gobi desert, two of the group (Krystyna and Makowski) died. Others had to eat snakes to survive. Around October 1941 they claim to have reached Tibet. Locals were friendly, especially when men said they were trying to reach Lhasa. They crossed the Himalayas somehow in the middle of winter. Another of the group died in his sleep in the cold and one fell into a crevasse and disappeared. Rawicz claims the survivors reached India around March 1942. [Wikipedia] 5 Escape From Alcatraz In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates. Officially, every escape attempt failed, and most participants were either killed or quickly re-captured. However, the participants in the 1937 and 1962 attempts, though presumed dead, disappeared without a trace, giving rise to popular theories that they were successful. The most famous and intricate attempt to escape from Alcatraz (June 11, 1962) saw Frank Morris, and the Anglin brothers burrow out of their cells, climb to the top of the cell block, cut through bars to make it to the roof via an air vent.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Rapport D'activité Plan Bâtiment Durable 2017
    Plan Bâtiment Durable Rapport d'activité 2017 EDITORIAL Plan Bâtiment, acte III Je ne me lasse pas d’écrire chaque année les lignes introductives à ce rapport, tellement l’écoulement du temps, loin de nous assoupir, favorise un renouvellement permanent de nos actions, en accélérant leur dynamique. 2017 restera exemplaire à cet égard, faisant mentir l’adage selon lequel les années électorales sont des temps perdus pour l’action. Voyez plutôt : la première partie de l’année a permis la mise en place de l’expérimentation E+C- qui prépare la future réglementation environnementale ; elle a été aussi l’occasion d’une production soutenue de textes réglementaires attendus. Le second semestre s’est caractérisé par le nouveau souffle donné à la rénovation énergétique des bâtiments, et la mission renforcée que le Gouvernement confie au Plan Bâtiment Durable. La période post-Grenelle a ainsi permis de lancer la programmation à l’horizon 2050, sans laquelle aucune transformation de notre société vers les bâtiments CE QUE DIT LE durables n’aurait pu s’engager. Le dernier quinquennat a fixé les objectifs PLAN RÉNO quantitatifs de nos ambitions et permis l’appropriation du projet par les territoires. Le troisième acte, ouvert en 2017, sera celui du déploiement de Retrouvez tout au long du l’action pour lequel, plus que jamais, il nous faut jouer collectif. rapport les éléments issus du Plan de rénovation énergétique des bâtiments. Philippe Pelletier Président du Plan Bâtiment Durable Le Plan Bâtiment Durable remercie l'ensemble des partenaires ayant participé à l’élaboration et à la diffusion de ce rapport et tout particulièrement le ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire et le ministère de la Cohésion des territoires.
    [Show full text]
  • Prisons in Yemen
    [PEACEW RKS [ PRISONS IN YEMEN Fiona Mangan with Erica Gaston ABOUT THE REPORT This report examines the prison system in Yemen from a systems perspective. Part of a three-year United States Institute of Peace (USIP) rule of law project on the post-Arab Spring transition period in Yemen, the study was supported by the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. State Department. With permission from the Yemeni Ministry of Interior and the Yemeni Prison Authority, the research team—authors Fiona Mangan and Erica Gaston for USIP, Aiman al-Eryani and Taha Yaseen of the Yemen Polling Center, and consultant Lamis Alhamedy—visited thirty-seven deten- tion facilities in six governorates to assess organizational function, infrastructure, prisoner well-being, and security. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Fiona Mangan is a senior program officer with the USIP Governance Law and Society Center. Her work focuses on prison reform, organized crime, justice, and security issues. She holds degrees from Columbia University, King’s College London, and University College Dublin. Erica Gaston is a human rights lawyer with seven years of experience in programming and research in Afghanistan on human rights and justice promotion. Her publications include books on the legal, ethical, and practical dilemmas emerging in modern conflict and crisis zones; studies mapping justice systems and outcomes in Afghanistan and Yemen; and thematic research and opinion pieces on rule of law issues in transitioning countries. She holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Cover photo: Covered Yard Area, Hodeida Central. Photo by Fiona Mangan. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors alone.
    [Show full text]
  • THE MYTH of 'TERRIBLE TURK' and 'LUSTFUL TURK' Nevs
    THE WESTERN IMAGE OF TURKS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE MYTH OF ‘TERRIBLE TURK’ AND ‘LUSTFUL TURK’ Nevsal Olcen Tiryakioglu A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Nottingham Trent University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2015 Copyright Statement This work is the intellectual property of the author. You may copy up to 5% of this work for private study, or personal, non-commercial research. Any re-use of the information contained within this document should be fully referenced, quoting the author, title, university, degree level and pagination. Queries or requests for any other use, or if a more substantial copy is required, should be directed in the owner(s) of the Intellectual Property Rights. i Abstract The Western image of Turks is identified with two distinctive stereotypes: ‘Terrible Turk’ and ‘Lustful Turk.’ These stereotypical images are deeply rooted in the history of the Ottoman Empire and its encounters with Christian Europe. Because of their fear of being dominated by Islam, European Christians defined the Turks as the wicked ‘Other’ against their perfect ‘Self.’ Since the beginning of Crusades, the Western image of Turks is associated with cruelty, barbarity, murderousness, immorality, and sexual perversion. These characteristics still appear in cinematic representations of Turks. In Western films such as Lawrence of Arabia and Midnight Express, the portrayals of Turks echo the stereotypes of ‘terrible Turk’ and ‘lustful Turk.’ This thesis argues that these stereotypes have transformed into a myth and continued to exist uniformly in Western contemporary cinema. The thesis attempts to ascertain the uniformity and consistency of the cinematic image of Turks and determine the associations between this image and the myths of ‘terrible Turk’ and ‘lustful Turk.’ To achieve this goal, this thesis examines the trajectory of the Turkish image in Western discourse between the 11th and 21st centuries.
    [Show full text]
  • Kindynis, T and Garrett, BL. 2015. Entering the Maze: Space, Time and Exclusion in an Aban- Doned Northern Ireland Prison
    Kindynis, T and Garrett, BL. 2015. Entering the Maze: Space, Time and Exclusion in an Aban- doned Northern Ireland Prison. Crime, Media, Culture, 11(1), pp. 5-20. ISSN 1741-6590 [Article] https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23441/ The version presented here may differ from the published, performed or presented work. Please go to the persistent GRO record above for more information. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Goldsmiths, University of London via the following email address: [email protected]. The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. For more information, please contact the GRO team: [email protected] Entering the Maze: Space, Time and Exclusion in an Abandoned Northern Ireland Prison [O]ur deepest thoughts and feelings pass to us through perplexed combinations of concrete objects… in compound experiences incapable of being disentangled (De Quincey, 1998: 104). Figure 1 1. Introduction Our hotel room, a cheap, smelly affair with 1970s puke-coloured wallpaper and a psychedelic flower-patterned rug, just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland, is littered with ropes, harnesses, camera gear, beer bottles, makeup, computer equipment, sleeping bags, academic journal articles and 30 meters of rope. We’re trying to make the rope climbable, stretching it down the hotel corridor, testing variations, debating feasibility. We settle on doubling the rope over and tying fat knots to step into, and go to sleep. The alarm clock goes off at 2am. We crawl out of bed, bleary- eyed, grab our bags, and trudge down to the car.
    [Show full text]
  • Prison Break: True Stories of the Worlds Greatest Escapes Free
    FREE PRISON BREAK: TRUE STORIES OF THE WORLDS GREATEST ESCAPES PDF Paul Buck | 288 pages | 01 Sep 2012 | John Blake Publishing Ltd | 9781843589600 | English | London, United Kingdom 12 Craziest Prison Escapes of all Time | InTime Please refresh the page and retry. Only this time, it's real. T he video shows inmates Adam Hossein Nayeri, Prison Break: True Stories of the Worlds Greatest Escapes Tieu and Bac Duong finding a way through the wall of their cell, hacking through bars and using bed sheets to make it outside and into a white van. It worked, too. Their bid to flee justice is the latest in a long line of audacious break out attempts not all of which were successful In scenes reminiscent of The Shawshank Redeption, Guzman, the billionaire head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, fled via a mile long tunnel that ran from his cell to a building under construction outside the prison's perimeter. Eighteen prison staff were also being questioned in connection with his disappearance. El Chapo was later caught again, after some time spent with Sean Penn, and is now back behind bars. Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34 apparently crawled along tunnels to flee the all-male Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison that sits on a tiny island off the coast of San Francisco, was supposed to be the jail that no man could escape. Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris were serving time for a litany of crimes including bank robbery and car theft when they resolved to flee Alcatraz and its claustrophobic confines.
    [Show full text]
  • Investigation of the June 5, 2015 Escape of Inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt from Clinton Correctional Facility
    State of New York Office of the Inspector General Investigation of the June 5, 2015 Escape of Inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt from Clinton Correctional Facility June 2016 Catherine Leahy Scott Inspector General STAFF FOR THIS INVESTIGATION AND REPORT SPENCER FREEDMAN JAMES CARROLL ELEANORE RUSSOMANNO Executive Deputy Inspector Deputy Chief Investigator Investigative Auditor General (Downstate Region) (Upstate Region) MICHELE HOST DENNIS GRAVES JASON FAZIO Chief Counsel Supervising Investigative Investigator Auditor (Upstate Region) (Upstate Region) JAMES R. DAVIS Deputy Inspector General FRANK RISLER ROBERTO SANTANA (Upstate) Chief Investigator Investigator Digital Forensics Lab (Downstate Region) BERNARD S. COSENZA Deputy Inspector General PETER AMOROSA JOSHUA WAITE of Investigations Investigative Auditor Senior Investigator (Upstate Region) (Upstate Region) SHERRY AMAREL Chief Investigator JOHN MILGRIM ROBERT PAYNE (Upstate Region) Special Deputy for Investigator Communications (Upstate Region) JAMES L. BREEN Investigative Counsel (Upstate) JEFFREY HAGEN GARY WATERS Deputy Inspector General Investigator DANIEL WALSH (Western Region) (Upstate Region) Deputy Chief Investigator (Upstate Region) STEPHEN DEL GIACCO STEPHANIE WORETH Director of Investigative Investigator ERIN BACH–LLOYD Reporting (Upstate Region) Investigator (Upstate Region) (Upstate Region) KATHERINE GEARY ANA PENN AMY T. TRIDGELL Special Assistant Investigator (Upstate Region) Director of Investigative (Upstate Region) Reporting (Downstate Region) JEFFREY HABER KELLY
    [Show full text]
  • Inmate-, Incident-, and Facility-Level Factors Associated with Escapes from Custody and Violent Outcomes
    City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 2-2015 Inmate-, Incident-, And Facility-Level Factors Associated With Escapes From Custody And Violent Outcomes Bryce E. Peterson Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/606 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] INMATE-, INCIDENT-, AND FACILITY-LEVEL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ESCAPES FROM CUSTODY AND VIOLENT OUTCOMES by BRYCE E. PETERSON A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Criminal Justice in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2015 © 2015 BRYCE ELLING PETERSON All Rights Reserved ii The manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Criminal Justice in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Jeffrey Mellow, Ph.D ______________________ _____________________________________ Date Chair of Examining Committee Deborah Koetzle, Ph.D _______________________ _______________________________________ Date Executive Officer Michael Maxfield, Ph.D Joshua Freilich, Ph.D Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii Abstract INMATE-, INCIDENT-, AND FACILITY-LEVEL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ESCAPES FROM CUSTODY AND VIOLENT OUTCOMES by Bryce E. Peterson Advisor: Professor Jeffrey Mellow, Ph.D Introduction: Preventing escapes from custody is a critical function of prisons, jails, and the individuals who run these correctional facilities.
    [Show full text]
  • Prison Escapes 2
    PRISON ESCAPES 2 17th century • In 1621 Dutch author Hugo Grotius escaped from Loevestein where he was held captive by hiding himself inside a book coffin. He was then smuggled outside. 18th century • Jack Sheppard took to theft and burglary in 1723, and was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure and wildly popular with the poorer classes. • The Italian author and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escaped from prison in 1757. 19th century • Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from his prison on the island Elba in 1815 and returned to Europe in an attempt to restore his Empire. • The notorious outlaw Billy The Kid managed to escape from prison in 1881, but was captured and shot by Pat Garrett only a few months later. 1900-1950 • German Naval Air Service Kapitänleutnant Gunther Plüschow escaped from the Donington Hall prisoner of war camp in 1915. • John Dillinger served time at the Indiana State Penitentiary at Michigan City, until 1933, when he was paroled. Within four months, he was back in jail in Lima, Ohio , but his gang sprang him, killing the jailer, Sheriff Jessie Sarber. Most of the gang was captured again by the end of the year in Tucson, Arizona , due to a fire at the Historic Hotel Congress. Dillinger alone was sent to the Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana . He was to face trial for the suspected killing of police officer William O'Malley during a bank shootout in East Chicago, Indiana , some time after his escape from jail. During this time on trial, a famous photograph was taken of Dillinger putting his arm on prosecutor Robert Estill's shoulder when suggested to him by reporters.
    [Show full text]
  • The Transformation of Noncitizen Detention in the United States
    From Exclusion to State Violence: The Transformation of Noncitizen Detention in the United States and Its Implications in Arizona, 1891-present by Judith Irangika Dingatantrige Perera A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Approved March 2018 by the Graduate Supervisory Committee: Jack Schermerhorn, Chair Leah Sarat Julian Lim ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY May 2018 ABSTRACT This dissertation analyzes the transformation of noncitizen detention policy in the United States over the twentieth century. For much of that time, official policy remained disconnected from the reality of experiences for those subjected to the detention regime. However, once detention policy changed into its current form, disparities between policy and reality virtually disappeared. This work argues that since its inception in the late nineteenth century to its present manifestations, noncitizen detention policy transformed from a form of exclusion to a method of state-sponsored violence. A new periodization based on detention policy refocuses immigration enforcement into three eras: exclusion, humane, and violent. When official policy became state violence, the regime synchronized with noncitizen experiences in detention marked by pain, suffering, isolation, hopelessness, and death. This violent policy followed the era of humane detentions. From 1954 to 1981, during a time of supposedly benevolent national policies premised on a narrative against de facto detentions, Arizona, and the broader Southwest, continued to detain noncitizens while collecting revenue for housing such federal prisoners. Over time increasing detentions contributed to overcrowding. Those incarcerated naturally reacted against such conditions, where federal, state, and local prisoners coalesced to demand their humanity. Yet, when taxpayers ignored these pleas, an eclectic group of sheriffs, state and local politicians, and prison officials negotiated with federal prisoners, commodifying them for federal revenue.
    [Show full text]
  • Prison Escapes 6
    PRISON ESCAPES 6 Alfred George Hinds Alfred George "Alfie" Hinds (1917, Newington Butts, London – January 5, 1991) was a British criminal who, while serving a 12-year prison sentence for robbery, successfully broke out of three high security prisons. Despite the dismissal of thirteen of his appeals to higher courts, he was eventually able to gain a pardon using his knowledge of the British legal system. [citation needed ] Biography Hinds grew up in a children's home following the death of his father, a thief who died while receiving ten lashes (from a cat 'o 6) as a form of corporal punishment for armed robbery, before running away at the age of seven. Eventually arrested for petty theft, he would later escape a Borstal institution for teenage delinquents. Although drafted into the British Army during the Second World War, Hinds deserted from the armed forces and continued his criminal career before his eventual arrest for a jewellery robbery in 1953 ($90,000 of which was never recovered by authorities) [citation needed ]. Although pleading not guilty, he was convicted and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. However, Hinds later escaped from Nottingham Prison after sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall for which he became known in the press as "Houdini" Hinds. He worked as a builder-decorator in Ireland and throughout Europe until his arrest by detectives of Scotland Yard in 1956 after 248 days as a fugitive.[1] After his arrest, Hinds brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and successfully used the incident as a means to plan his next escape by having a padlock smuggled in to him while at the Law Courts.
    [Show full text]
  • Prison Breaks 3
    PRISON BREAKS 3 The larger than life story of Mark DeFriest, an infamous prison escape artist - the "Houdini of Florida" - whose notoriety and struggle with mental illness threaten his quest to be freed after 31 years behind bars. Animation from the Florida State Hospital escape sequence Mark DeFriest's life is living history. At age 19, his original sentence was for a nonviolent property crime, but because of additional punishment for escapes, he has spent his entire adult life behind bars. DeFriest has survived 31 years in prison, most of it in longterm solitary confinement in a custom cell above the electric chair at Florida State Prison. He has been raped, beaten, shot and basically left for dead, but he has somehow lived to tell the tale. When he was sent to prison in 1981, five out of six doctors declared that he was mentally incompetent to be sentenced. They warned the judges that Mark couldn't learn better behavior and needed treatment. Instead, he was allowed to plead guilty, even at one point to a Life Sentence. The documentary brings this story to life. True to the psychiatrists' expectations, Mark has amassed an astonishing number of disciplinary reports in prison for things like possession of escape paraphernalia, but also for behavioral violations like telling the guards his name was James Bond. "He's a little bit crazy, a little bit manipulative, but not really a bad person", as his former lawyer puts it. Apparently that point was lost on the system, as Mark has always been held with the worst of the worst.
    [Show full text]
  • Monde.20011014.Pdf
    www.lemonde.fr 57e ANNÉE – Nº 17641 – 7,90 F - 1,20 EURO FRANCE MÉTROPOLITAINE -- DIMANCHE 14 - LUNDI 15 OCTOBRE 2001 FONDATEUR : HUBERT BEUVE-MÉRY – DIRECTEUR : JEAN-MARIE COLOMBANI Angoisse à New York, bataille politique pour Kaboul b Un cas d’anthrax a été détecté à New York b Après la Floride, il s’agit du quatrième aux Etats-Unis b Le vice-président Richard Cheney évoque l’hypothèse terroriste b Les Américains cherchent à constituer une large coalition politique afghane avant de faire tomber le régime des talibans SOMMAIRE b La guerre et l’enquête : Suspendus vendredi, jour de la prière des musul- b La peur du bioterrorisme : Après mans, des bombardements sporadi- la Floride, un cas d’anthrax a été ques ont repris samedi, notamment REUTERS détecté à New York. C’est le quatriè- sur Kandahar. La « bataille de me aux Etats-Unis. Une employée de Kaboul » est subordonnée à un la chaîne de télévision NBC, dont les accord préalable entre les opposants Kofi Annan et l’ONU bureaux sont situés dans le Rockefel- au régime des talibans. Les Améri- ler Center, a été contaminée. Elle cains et leurs alliés font pression pour KRZYSZTOF MILLER/GAZETA/VU avait ouvert une enveloppe postée que se forme une coalition qui ras- Prix Nobel de la paix en Floride, contenant une poudre semblerait toutes les composantes de DOSSIER SPÉCIAL : LE PAKISTAN blanche. Une lettre du même type, la société afghane. Washington ne LE PRIX NOBEL de la paix 2001 a en cours d’examen, a été adressée croit plus que les talibans abandonne- été conjointement attribué, vendredi au New York Times.
    [Show full text]