An Iranian-American psychopath goes to the men's city jail in Orange County Jail in Southern California; before he gets sent to a higher security prison, he escapes by crawling up the plumbing chase and rappelling down the side of the prison.
During the Civil War, a daring prison break frees hundreds of captured Union soldiers; Colonel Thomas Rose was a schoolteacher before the Civil War; when he was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia, he engineers a mass escape.
Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from Los Angeles gets caught up in a large-scale marijuana bust and is sentenced to a long prison term; when he finds out he is going to be a father, he determines to break out of his cell.
Interviews and re-creations bring some of history's most daring jailbreaks to life, detailing every step of the way, including the inmates' meticulous plans and the manhunts that followed.
Interviews and re-creations bring some of history's most daring jailbreaks to life, detailing every step of the way, including the inmates' meticulous plans and the manhunts that followed.
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.