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  2. Mecklenburg Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Six inmates facing the Virginia electric chair made an escape from the facility on May 31, 1984. The inmates who escaped included two of the Briley Brothers (Linwood and James), along with Lem Tuggle, Earl Clanton, Derick Peterson, and Willie Jones. They had observed how correctional officers were complacent and often failed to follow security ...

  3. Richard Lee McNair - Wikipedia

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    Richard Lee McNair (born December 19, 1958) is an American convicted murderer known for his ability to escape and elude capture. [1] In 1987, McNair murdered one man and shot a second man four times during a botched robbery.

  4. Prison escape - Wikipedia

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    Escape of the prisoners from the Limoeiro, at Lisbon, 29 April 1847, during the Patuleia civil war Escape from prison in Greenville, Ohio, USA (1909) A prison escape (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, jail escape, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs ...

  5. Category:Prison escapes - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Prison escapes" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Prison escape-

  6. John Patrick Hannan - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the prison. On 22 December 1955, Hannan, with fellow inmate Gwynant Thomas, escaped the prison. Hannan had been there just 30 days. Hannan and fellow inmate Gwynant Thomas escaped by using a knotted bedsheet to climb over the wall (according to a later interview with a future governor, the wall was "probably" lower than it is today).

  7. Colditz Cock - Wikipedia

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    The wingspan, tip to tip, was 32 ft (9.75 m), and it was 19 ft 9 in (6 m) from nose to tail. Prison sleeping bags of blue and white checked cotton were used to skin the glider, and German ration millet was boiled and used as a form of dope to seal the cloth pores. [6] The completed glider weighed 240 lb (109 kg).

  8. Former Mississippi police officer gets about 10 years in ...

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    The last of six former law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men outside Mississippi’s capital has been sentenced. Former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield was given an ...

  9. Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia

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    The BBC Prison Study has now been taught as a core study on the UK A-level Psychology OCR syllabus. [40] While Haslam and Reicher's procedure was not a direct replication of Zimbardo's, their study casts further doubt on the generality of his conclusions. Specifically, it questions the notion that people slip mindlessly into roles.