Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes

Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes

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Top 10 Greatest Prison Escapes
Prisons are always built to be escape proof, but that hasn’t stopped prisoners from trying to escape
anyway. These escapes end in various degrees of success, and also various levels of epic-ness, it’s the
latter where we based this list.
From the unlikely escape of a priest, to what is considered the greatest escape attempt in history, stick
with us till the end to know what that is, here are the 10 greatest prison escapes.

Number 10. John Dillinger
John Herbert Dillinger Jr. was a famous American bank robber who operated during the Depression era.
He robbed two dozen banks and, get this, four police stations during heyday.
After robbing two banks, he was caught and imprisoned in Lima in the Autumn of 1933. Here, he was
r=technically broken out of jail, rather than escaped but he did it in a way that only John Dillinger can.
He helped a group of prisoners’ escape, just four days after he was captured. The same inmates
returned for Dillinger, disguised as Indiana State Prison guards and released Dillinger from his cell.
After another series of bank robberies, Dillinger was again cornered in 1934 and sent to Crown Point Jail,
which was highly touted as being escape proof. Of course, Dillinger just had to prove this false. He
crafted a wooden gun from the shelving in his cell. He then tricked a guard into opening his cell, and
proceeded to take 17 men hostage, using the fake gun. He locked the men in his own cell, then fled the
scene.
Dillinger evaded police across four states before meeting his end on 22 July 1934 when a tip-off led to a
shoot-out in Chicago. Dillinger was shot three times and was pronounced dead shortly after.

Number 9. Alfred George Hinds
British career criminal Alfred George Hinds successfully broke out of not one, not two, but three high
security prisons while serving a 12 year prison sentence. His first escape was from a Nottingham prison
in 1958 where he managed to get through locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall to his freedom,
earning him the nickname Houdini Hinds.
During his time on the lam, which was 248 days, he travelled across Europe working as a painter
decorator before he was caught.
He travelled throughout Europe during his time on the run, working as a painter-decorator before being
apprehended after 248 days of freedom. He used his re-arrest to his advantage, bringing a lawsuit
against the authorities and hence finding a reason to be escorted to the Law Courts. While in the court
house, he somehow duped his guards to take him to the toilet, where he was able to lock them up in a
cubicle using a padlock previously prepared for him by some accomplices. This escape, however, only
lasted 5 hours later while at the airport.

His third and final prison escape came less than a year later, when he escaped from Chelmsford Prison.
It’s unclear how he did it this time, but he fled to Ireland assuming a false identity and lived there for
two years before being caught in a routine traffic stop while driving an unregistered car.

Number 8. John Gerard
John Gerard is the only person ever known to have escaped from the notorious Tower of London. Quite
ironically, he wasn’t a career criminal, but rather a Jesuit priest, making the escape even more amazing.
He was imprisoned for continuing to preach his Catholic beliefs when the church was under heavy
persecution from Elizabethan England.
While in prison, he endured several interrogations, often being tortured for information. He never
broke, but was eventually sentenced to death for his so-called crimes. Desperate to escape, Gerard was
able to send notes written in orange juice to his allies on the outside.
These allies rowed a boat into the Tower’s moat and Gerard was able to escape by using a rope thrown
up to him. Cheating death after almost falling because of his tortured hands, Gerard managed to climb
down to the boat, flee England and live the rest of his life safely in Rome.

Number 7. The Texas Seven
The Texas Seven were a group of prisoners who escaped from the John B. Connally Unit on the 13 th of
December 2000. The escape was an elaborate scheme devised by the group which led to them
overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers and three uninvolved inmates.
As soon as they were overpowered, clothing, credit cards and ID were taken from the hostages were
used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison.rms.