Prisoner Escapes by Mailing Himself Out of Jail
So maybe this isn’t an obvious tactic, and maybe large packages coming into a prison are searched more thoroughly than large packages leaving a prison—but you’d expect prison guards to pay attention to anything large enough for a person to fit into.
At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.
I am remembering the tour of Alcatraz I took some years ago, and I think the tour guide talked about someone who tried to escape in a laundry cart. So maybe this isn’t such a new idea after all.
EDITED TO ADD (12/12): He was recaptured.
EDITED TO ADD (12/13): In 1977 Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler was smuggled out of a hospital, concealed in a large suitcase.
Mathias • December 5, 2008 7:43 AM
As this report (http://www.wz-newsline.de/index.php?redid=364383) states the escapee has been caught. Sixteen days after his escape, and less than an hour’s drive away from the prison. Police still don’t know how exactly he managed to escape. They suspect he had accomplices inside and outside the prison. He is now being watched closely and will be relocated to another prison.