John Dillanger (click here) was a repeat offender in prison breaks. His first prison break was due to his gang infiltrating the prison guards. The second time he was imprisoned it was from a facility that was escape-proof in Lake County, Indiana. These prison breaks were in 1933 and 1934.
Prison breaks have occurred within most allied democracies Japan, the UK, France, Germany and Australia.
This is going to be a little alarming, but, there have been consistent prison breaks in most democracies in the last few years. Probably because of budget cuts. The last one in the USA before Sweat and Matt, was September 11, 2014 in Ohio. There were two, Lane and Opperund. They were each caught separately within 8 hours of their escape discovery. Get this though, Lane age 19, escaped first and then and separately Opperund left the prison.
Willie Sutton was an interesting character, too. It was the same time Dillanger was at his worst. His preference was robbery.
...Sutton was apprehended on February 5, 1934 (click here) and was sentenced to serve 25 to 50 years in Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the machine gun robbery of the Corn Exchange Bank. On April 3, 1945, Sutton was one of 12 convicts who escaped the institution through a tunnel. Sutton was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia police officers; this had been his fifth escape attempt at this prison.
Prison breaks have occurred within most allied democracies Japan, the UK, France, Germany and Australia.
This is going to be a little alarming, but, there have been consistent prison breaks in most democracies in the last few years. Probably because of budget cuts. The last one in the USA before Sweat and Matt, was September 11, 2014 in Ohio. There were two, Lane and Opperund. They were each caught separately within 8 hours of their escape discovery. Get this though, Lane age 19, escaped first and then and separately Opperund left the prison.
Willie Sutton was an interesting character, too. It was the same time Dillanger was at his worst. His preference was robbery.
...Sutton was apprehended on February 5, 1934 (click here) and was sentenced to serve 25 to 50 years in Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the machine gun robbery of the Corn Exchange Bank. On April 3, 1945, Sutton was one of 12 convicts who escaped the institution through a tunnel. Sutton was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia police officers; this had been his fifth escape attempt at this prison.
Sentenced to life
imprisonment as a fourth time offender, Sutton was transferred to the
Philadelphia County Prison, Homesburg, Pennsylvania. On February 10,
1947, Sutton and other prisoners dressed as prison guards. The men
carried two ladders across the prison yard to the wall after dark. When
the prison’s searchlights hit him, Sutton yelled, “It’s okay,” and no
one stopped him.
On March 20, 1950, Willie
“The Actor” Sutton was added to the FBI’s list of Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives. Because of his love for expensive clothes, Sutton’s
photograph was given to tailors as well as police departments. A
24-year-old tailor’s son recognized Sutton on the New York subway on
February 18, 1952 and followed him to a local gas station where Sutton
purchased a battery for his car. The man reported the incident to the
police who later arrested Sutton....
