Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes

Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes

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Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes
Prisons by design, are meant to keep the worst of society safely contained within its walls. They don’t always work though, as proven by the many prison escapes that happened throughout history. Today we will talk about prison escapes that defied the impossible. From one of the earliest recorded escapes in history, to what is considered the greatest escape plan of all time despite ending in failure, here are the top 10 greatest prison escapes.

Number 10. John Gerard
Let’s start off this video with one of the earliest recorded prison mistakes in history. I’m talking about, none other than John Gerard, who is the only person ever known to have escaped from the notorious Tower of London. Surprisingly, he wasn’t a career criminal, but rather a Jesuit priest, making the escape even more unbelievable. He was imprisoned for continuing to preach his Catholic beliefs when the church was under heavy persecution from a predominantly Protestant England.
While in prison, he endured many interrogations and tortured for information. He never gave any, so he was eventually sentenced to death for his trumped up crimes. Desperate for escape, Gerard was able to send notes written in orange juice to his allies on the outside.
His allies rowed a boat into the Tower’s moat and Gerard was able to escape by using a rope thrown up to him. And despite his hands being tortured to uselessness, he still managed to climb down the rope to the boat, and flee England to live the rest of his life safely in Rome.

Number 9. The Texas Seven
The Texas Seven was the name given to a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Prison on the 13th of December 2000. They hatched up an elaborate scheme which led to them overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers and even three uninvolved inmates.
As soon as they were overpowered, their clothing, credit cards and ID were taken and were used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison. While some of the seven stayed behind to make phone calls to the prison tower guards to distract them, the others raided the guard tower and stole numerous weapons. In the end, they hijacked a prison maintenance pick-up truck in which all seven drove away from the prison.
Despite the daring escape, six of the seven were apprehended just over a month later, and placed on death row. The seventh guy took his own life, obviously choosing to die on his own terms.

Number 8. The Empress Matilda
In the autumn of 1142, Empress Matilda was trapped in Oxford Castle, surrounded by soldiers loyal to her cousin Stephen, grandson of William the Conqueror. At the time. the historic battle called ‘The Anarchy’, was raging across the country for the crown of England.
Stephen and the Empress both laid claim to the crown and took it in turns to lay siege to one another’s strongholds. This particular siege at Oxford Castle lasted three grueling months.
Matilda’s epic escape came one snowy night in December, when, if the legend is true, she wrapped herself in a white cape and fled on makeshift ice skates across the ice to Wallingford Castle. A truce was decided to end the battle, with Matilda agreeing that Stephen could keep the throne so long as her son Henry became his heir. Stephen died not long after this agreement was forged, in very suspicious circumstances I might add, allowing King Henry II to take the throne.

Number 7. Ronnie Biggs
Ronald Arthur Biggs, or Ronnie Biggs, made his name in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and became even doubly famous for evading capture for 36 years and living as a fugitive until he voluntarily surrendered to authorities in 2001.
After being arrested and sent to Wandsworth Prison for his part in the Great Train Robbery, Biggs only served 19 months of his prison sentence before escaping on the 8th of July 1965. He did so by scaling a wall with a rope ladder and dropping on to a waiting van.
Evading capture, he fled to Brussels via boat and then onto Paris where he took on a new identity, even undergoing plastic surgery to alter his appearance. His 36 years on the lam were spent mainly in Australia and Brazil.