Feb. 1 -- With so many high-profile prison escapes recently it might seem that inmates are fleeing like never before. First the "Texas Seven" broke out of a maximum security prison, and now six of ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We have reported on at least five prison escapes since May; four in our area, including the recent escape and capture of Danelo Cavalcante. Now, a group of Republican state ...

Two inmates held onto a rope as the aircraft departed the prison's roof. — -- The footage from a 2013 brazen prison break in Canada, in which two inmates escaped via a helicopter, was recently ...

French police on Thursday caught a second inmate who had escaped from prison in late November by sawing through cell bars and using bedsheets, sources close to the case told AFP. The 19-year-old ...

There was a mass prisoner escape after they were temporarily evacuated from their cells during mild earthquake tremors overnight. A group suddenly attacked the guards in Karachi, Pakistan, officials ...

Gone are the days of scaling prison walls or digging holes out of Alcatraz. If a prisoner wants to escape their cell, the best method appears to be climbing into a plastic bag. At least that how one ...

France's prison service said Saturday it had launched an investigation after a man escaped by smuggling himself into his cellmate's bag as he left jail, having served his sentence. The man was ...