11.   Female prisoners rarely escape, and security at the east Georgia prison was lax.

12.   No prisoner ever escaped Alcatraz alive.

13.   Similarly, courts held that an officer may dispense with announcement in cases where a prisoner escapes from him and retreats to his dwelling.

14.   The purpose is to aid a hunt should the prisoner escape and shave off the beard, state officials say.

15.   The prisoners escaped from the Connally Unit near Kenedy, after tricking and overpowering guards and civilian employees.

16.   The two prisoners escaped by using the string from shower curtain stitching and abrasive toothpaste to saw through hollow steel bars covering an air conditioning vent.

17.   Prisoners often escape by bribing guards.

18.   A Palestinian security source, meanwhile, said two other prisoners escaped Wednesday from a jail in the northern West Bank town Jenin.

19.   A prison guard was killed and the prisoners escaped, the authorities said.

20.   About the same time, an IRA prisoner escaped dressed as a woman.