PRISONERS using power tools to cut their way through the walls of their jail cells then crawling to freedom through the plumbing pipes. Sounds like the far-fetched plot of a movie or TV series yet this is the bizarre scenario that played out at a maximum-security prison in America recently.
Investigators are still struggling to piece together the exact details of how Richard Matt and David Sweat masterminded their brazen escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in a remote part of the state of New York. Right under the watchful eye of the guards the men tunnelled through the steel wall of their neighbouring cells, using power tools that had been smuggled into the prison.
Behind their cells was a hidden metal stairwell which took them six storeys down into the bowels of…
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You South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, 02 July 2015