Deprivation of liberty, as a form of punishment, has been known since ancient times, and now restriction of liberty is applied in all countries of the world. In Russia, the placement of criminals in prisons was first fixed in the Judicial Code of 1550. But we will not go into legal subtleties, but we will talk about the most famous prison escapes.
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Great escape
The sensational case occurred in the UK. Her Majesty's Mayes Prison System was considered one of the most stringent and safe from escape in the vastness of Europe.
But on September 25, 1983, 38 prisoners convicted of terrorist acts and murders of officials on the territory of Britain, as well as for service in the Irish Republican Army, having passed all the barriers, broke free.
As a result of the incident, called the "Great Escape", 39 guards received various injuries, and one of them died of a heart attack.
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Prison Houdini
Alfred Hinds was famous all over the world. No walls and fences could suppress the desire for freedom in it. He constantly escaped from places of detention until he proved his innocence.
The first time he was imprisoned at school age, but escaped from prison. In 1953, Hinds commits his most famous robbery, taking away from a jewelry store $ 90,000 that he never found.
The Briton was convicted, and imprisoned for 12 years. He mysteriously disappeared from the cell, for which he received the nickname "Houdini". In all his life, he fled 3 times from places of detention and 1 time from the courtroom, which can be considered the fastest escape even before the announcement of the verdict.
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Seven from Texas
A tremendous jailbreak was carried out by seven dangerous criminals from a Texas state prison. Using the elections in the USA on December 13, 2000, they seized weapons from the guards and fled in a car.
The state authorities announced a reward of $ 500,000 for their capture, and all of America was shocked by what happened. After escaping, the criminals committed a series of daring crimes, but a month later they managed to be detained in Colorado.
One of the escaped shot himself during arrest, and the rest were sentenced to death. One was executed in 2008, and the remaining five are still awaiting execution.
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Flight from hell
This event breaks out of the context of the presented shoots, because Alfred Wetzler and Walter Rosenberg managed to accomplish the almost impossible. In April 1944, both of them fled from the German concentration camp Auschwitz.
This happened on the day of the Passover on April 13, 1944. Once safe, Wetzler detailed the camp plan, the location of the gas chambers and described the brutal killings carried out by the Nazis behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz. The protocols were sent to Switzerland and the United States, and then used at the trial in Nuremberg.
In 1964, Alfred and Walter wrote a book in which they uncovered the crimes of the Nazis committed by them in the death camps.
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From Siberia to India
The story of one Polish soldier Slavomir Rawicz, convicted of espionage in the USSR in 1939, also deserves attention. After interrogations at the NKVD, he was sent to camp No. 303, which was located near the Arctic Circle.
On one April day in 1941, Slavomira and several other people were not there during the verification. The world learned the details of their escape and the way through the Himalayas to India from the book of the Pole himself, which was published in 1959. The Soviet newspapers did not cover the escape.
Many details of the escape, as well as survival in the harsh conditions of Siberia, raised many questions among skeptics. The Air Force Agency conducted an investigation, which resulted in Ravich’s escape being fictitious.
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Escape from Alcatraz
The famous Alcatraz prison has one of the best security systems in the world, and escape from it was considered impossible. But the incident in the early 60s of the twentieth century was the most incredible jailbreak.
Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz prison, and his story rightfully entered the 5 most high-profile escapes from places of detention. This happened in June 1962, when Frank, with his brothers John and Clarence Anglin, having deceived the guards, went outside the prison.
Authorities organized a search for fugitives, but the FBI found no criminals. The details of the escape are unknown, as is the fate of the people who committed the only escape in history from a world-famous prison. Later, based on this incident, a film was made in Hollywood.
By the way, on thebiggest.ru there is an interesting article about the most terrible prisons in the world.
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Exodus
In the United States during the Civil War, in one of the premises of the businessman Luther Libby, the military command of the Confederation equipped the prison.
The captured soldiers of the Northern Union were kept in unsanitary conditions, being subjected to constant bullying. On a February morning in 1864, captured soldiers rioted, and 100 prisoners managed to escape.
Everyone managed to get to the location of the Union forces, and in the Libby prison the security system was significantly strengthened, although escape attempts were made more than once.
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The enemy of society number 1
In the early 1930s, the FBI classified a bank robber named John Herbert Dillinger as a No. 1 criminal. For multiple bank robberies, he received a 10-year prison term.
For the first time, friends with whom he met in a cell helped him make a jailbreak. In total, John managed to escape from places of detention twice, and also robbed police stations 4 times. He has accounted for dozens of robbed banks during the Great Depression.
During the next detention on March 22, 1934, the fugitive was shot and killed by police.
You can find out about the most dangerous criminals in modern history on thebiggest.ru in this fascinating article.
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Yoga Mastery
Korean Choi Gap Bok has been doing yoga for 23 years, which helped him escape from places of detention.
After the indictment, the Korean was placed in a cell. Food was fed into it through an opening measuring 15 by 45 cm. Choi escaped through this window, setting a speed record, because he climbed out through it in 34 seconds.
Six days later, the "master of yoga" was caught by the police, but they put him after a miraculous escape into the cell with an even smaller window for feeding. And along the perimeter of the walls they strengthened the guard, suddenly Choi will learn new skills to climb into narrow holes.
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By plane
One of the most daring and courageous shoots was made by Pascal Payet. For this, his friends used a plane.
The first time he fled in 2001, and the second time he successfully overcame the perimeter of security in 2007. Three months after the second incident, he was caught, and now the information about his place of detention is classified. This is done so that friends again do not use special means to organize an escape.
Interestingly, in between prison sentences, Pascal successfully helped friends escape from prisons by helicopter.
Cases in Russia
Let's go beyond the Top 10 shoots and imagine real shoots from Russian prisons.
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Escape from the "silence"
The loudest escape from Russian prisons was the flight from the “Sailor silence” of the famous assassin Alexander Solonik in the 1990s. Former commandos during the arrest at the Petrovsky-Rozumovsky market shot dead three policemen.
At the trial, he confessed everything and was sent to an isolation ward. Not having spent a year in prison, on July 5, 1995, the offender fled, tarnishing his reputation as an “impregnable” institution. In 1997, Alexander Solonik was killed.
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The most spectacular escape
Aleksey Shestakov was convicted of hooliganism twice in his childhood. In the late 90s, together with an accomplice, having killed several people, they robbed an apartment.
In 1999, Shestakov was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He served time in a colony in the town of Sheksna, Vologda Oblast. Early in the morning of March 22, 2012, the killer escaped by helicopter. The most spectacular was the video when he flew in front of the cameras on a cable attached to a helicopter.
The video was shown on all channels, and the next day the offender was detained along with his accomplices.
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Rebellion in the death camp
The Nazi concentration camp "Sobibor" contained not only Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war. Over the years, more than 3250 thousand people were killed here.
In October 1943, prisoners who did not reconcile to bullying, and inspired by the actions of the Soviet lieutenant Alexander Pechersky, revolted. Resistance to the punishers ended in a successful escape. Of the 550 prisoners, 130 refused to take part in the risky event.
In world history, this was the only case of a successful uprising in the SS death camps. After this, the death camp "Sobibor" in Poland ceased to function. Until the end of the war, 53 participants in the uprising, including Pechersky, survived.
Conclusion
In the age of digital electronic security systems, escaping from prisons has become more difficult, but no, no, and news sometimes reports another successful attempt to get out of the security perimeter.
In conclusion, we note that the shoots are most often carefully planned, but the most daring shoots from places of detention occur spontaneously, due to the circumstances. Such stories attract writers and directors. The former write exciting books about this, while the latter make fascinating adventure films.
Article author: Valery Skiba