1.   Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.

2.   Some prisoners tried to escape, but most were recaptured or shot.

3.   A three-dimensional image of an inmate mailbox was so real that unwitting prisoners tried to open it, according to corrections officers.

4.   Prison officials said the doors had malfunctioned only in the medium security cell blocks and that no prisoners had tried to escape.

5.   Prisoners periodically tried to escape, he said, but if they were caught, the only question was how they would be executed.

6.   The prisoners tried to negotiate, demanding to talk to reporters.

7.   The prisoner at first tried to convince his interrogators that he was alone and had wanted to surrender to the Alliance.

8.   Police killed six inmates in a gunbattle Thursday when the prisoners tried to escape a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil.

9.   Prisoners tried to extinguish the fire with a thin hose connected to a small water tank, but it was too weak.

10.   A suspect charged with murder and a police guard were wounded by gunfire when two prisoners tried to escape during a court appearance, police said Wednesday.