American felon, Brian Nichols, facing possible life imprisonment for brutally raping his girlfriend shoots his way out, and, in Ireland 38 inmates escape in one go!
The Alacatraz escape they didn't want you know about and a modern day Count of Monte Christo breaks out of Monaco's 17th century prison.
Having already escaped custody four times, George Hyatte talks a prison nurse into getting married and helping him do it again. Convicted for his role in England's Great Train Robbery, Ronald Biggs escapes and spends over three decades on the run.
Mecklenburg Correctional Facility, in Boydton Virgina claims at being escape proof went up in flame the day 6 Death Row inmates broke out. And 23 year old Christopher "Badness" Binse is a serial escapee, escaping four times in four years.
On March 16 2001, two convicted killers mail themselves to freedom. William Davis and Douglas Gray, both serving life sentences in a Springtown, Oklahoma prison, use their privileged jobs making road signs in the workshop to plan an ingenious escape.