時尚雙語:現實世界的震撼“越獄”前十名

As long as we have had prisons, we have had prison escapes. This is a list of the 10 most daring and amazing escapes from prison in history. This adds to our collection of crime related lists, such as tips for escaping the cops, tips for committing the perfect crime, and prison survival tips.

10. Maze Prison Escape

In the biggest prison escape in British history, on 25 September 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 38 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners, who had been convicted of offenses including murder and causing explosions, escaped from H-Block 7 (H7) of the prison. One prison officer died of a heart attack as a result of the escape and twenty others were injured, including two who were shot with guns that had been smuggled into the prison. HM Prison Maze was considered one of the most escape-proof prisons in Europe. In addition to 15-foot fences, each H-Block was encompassed by an 18-foot concrete wall topped with barbed wire, and all gates on the complex were made of solid steel and electronically operated. Shortly after 2:30, the prisoners took control of the H-block holding the prison guards hostage at gunpoint. Some of the prisoners took the guards clothing and car keys in order to help with their escape. At 3:25, a truck bringing food supplies arrived and the prisoners told the driver that he was going to help them escape. They tied his foot to the clutch and told him where to drive. At 3:50 the truck left the H-block, and soon after the prison, carrying all 38 men. Over the next few days, 19 escapees were caught. The remaining escapees were assisted by the IRA in finding hiding places. Some of the group ended up in the USA but were later found and extradited. Due to politics in Northern Ireland, none of the remaining escapees are being actively sought and some have been given amnesties. Note the wires strung across the yard in the picture above - this is to prevent helicopters from landing due to another escape attempt at Maze Prison.

9. Alfred Hinds

“Alfie” Hinds was a British criminal and escape artist who, while serving a 12 year prison sentence for robbery, successfully broke out of three high security prisons. Despite the dismissal of thirteen of his appeals to higher courts, he was eventually able to gain a pardon using his knowledge of the British legal system. After being sentenced to 12 years in prison for a jewelry robbery, Hinds escaped from Nottingham prison by sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall for which he became known in the press as “Houdini” Hinds. After 6 months he was found and arrested. After his arrest, Hinds brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and successfully used the incident as a means to plan his next escape by having a padlock smuggled in to him while at the Law Courts. Two guards escorted him to the toilet, but when they removed his handcuffs Alfie bundled the men into the cubicle and snapped the padlock onto screw eyes that his accomplices had earlier fixed to the door. He escaped into the crowd on Fleet Street but was captured at an airport five hours later. Hinds would make his third escape from Chelmsford Prison less than a year later. While eluding Scotland Yard, Hinds continued to plead his innocence sending memorandums to British MPs and granting interviews and taped recordings to the press. He would continue to appeal his arrest and, following a technicality in which prison escapes are not listed as misdemeanors within British law, his final appeal before the House of Lords in 1960 was denied after a three hour argument by Hinds before his return to serve 6 years in Parkhurst Prison. Pictured above is Nottingham Prison - the first prison that Hinds escaped from.

8. The Texas Seven

The Texas 7 was a group of prisoners who escaped from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas on December 13, 2000. They were apprehended January 21-23, 2001 as a direct result of the television show America’s Most Wanted. On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas town of Kenedy. Using several well-planned ploys, the seven convicts overpowered and restrained nine civilian maintenance supervisors, four correctional officers and three uninvolved inmates at approximately 11:20 a.m. The escape occurred during the slowest period of the day when there would be less surveillance of certain locations like the maintenance area — during lunch and at count time. Most of these plans involved one of the offenders calling someone over, while another hit the unsuspecting person on the head from behind. Once the victim was subdued, the offenders would remove some of his clothing, tie him up, gag him and place him in an electrical room behind a locked door. Eleven prison workers and three uninvolved inmates were bound and gagged. The attackers stole clothing, credit cards, and identification from their victims. The group also impersonated prison officers on the phone and created false stories to ward off suspicion from authorities. They eventually made their way to the prison maintenance pickup-truck which they used to escape from the prison grounds. The remaining 5 living members of the group are all on death row awaiting death by lethal injection. Of the other two, one committed suicide and one has already been executed.

7. Alfréd Wetzler

Wetzler was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Wetzler is known for the report that he and his fellow escapee, Rudolf Vrba, compiled about the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp - a ground plan of the camp, construction details of the gas chambers, crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Zyklon gas. The 32-page Vrba-Wetzler report, as it became known, was the first detailed report about Auschwitz to reach the West that the Allies regarded as credible. The evidence eventually led to the bombing of several government buildings in Hungary, killing Nazi officials who were instrumental in the railway deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. The deportations halted, saving up to 120,000 Hungarian Jews. Wetzler escaped with a fellow Jew named Rudolf Vrba. With the help of the camp underground, at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 7, 1944 — the eve of Passover — the two men climbed inside a hollowed-out hiding place in a wood pile that was being stored to build the “Mexico” section for the new arrivals. It was outside Birkenau’s barbed-wire inner perimeter, but inside an external perimeter the guards kept erected during the day. The other prisoners placed boards around the hollowed-out area to hide the men, then sprinkled the area with pungent Russian tobacco soaked in gasoline to fool the guards’ dogs. The two remained in hiding for 4 nights - to avoid recapture. On April 10, wearing Dutch suits, overcoats, and boots they had taken from the camp, they made their way south, walking parallel to the Soła river, heading for the Polish border with Slovakia 80 miles (133 km.) away, guiding themselves using a page from a child’s atlas that Vrba had found in the warehouse. You can read their report on Auschwitz here. [Wikipedia]

6. Sławomir Rawicz

Rawicz was a Polish soldier who was arrested by Soviet occupation troops after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. When the Soviet Union and Germany took over Poland, Rawicz returned to Pińsk where NKVD arrested him on November 19, 1939. He was taken to Moscow. He was first sent to Kharkov for interrogation, and then after trial he was sent to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. He claims to have successfully resisted all attempts to torture a confession out of him in prison. He was sentenced, ostensibly for spying, to 25 years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp. He was transported, alongside thousands of others, to Irkutsk and made to walk to Camp 303, 650 km south of the Arctic Circle, to build the camp from the ground up. On 9 April 1941, Rawicz claimed that he and his six allies escaped in a middle of a blizzard. They rushed to the south, avoiding towns in fear they would be betrayed, but apparently they were not actively pursued. They also met an additional fugitive, Polish woman Krystyna. Nine days later they crossed the Lena River. They walked around Lake Baikal and crossed to Mongolia. Fortunately, people they encountered were friendly and hospitable. During the crossing of the Gobi desert, two of the group (Krystyna and Makowski) died. Others had to eat snakes to survive. Around October 1941 they claim to have reached Tibet. Locals were friendly, especially when men said they were trying to reach Lhasa. They crossed the Himalayas somehow in the middle of winter. Another of the group died in his sleep in the cold and one fell into a crevasse and disappeared. Rawicz claims the survivors reached India around March 1942. [Wikipedia]

5. Escape From Alcatraz

In its 29 years of operation, there were 14 attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison involving 34 inmates. Officially, every escape attempt failed, and most participants were either killed or quickly re-captured. However, the participants in the 1937 and 1962 attempts, though presumed dead, disappeared without a trace, giving rise to popular theories that they were successful. The most famous and intricate attempt to escape from Alcatraz (June 11, 1962) saw Frank Morris,and the Anglin brothers burrow out of their cells, climb to the top of the cell block, cut through bars to make it to the roof via an air vent. From there they climbed down a drain pipe, over a chain link fence and then to the shore where they assembled a pontoon-type raft and then vanished. The trio are believed to have drowned in the San Francisco Bay and are officially listed as missing and presumed drowned. However, they may have made it and gone to a place where people did not know them.

4. Libby Prison Escape

The Libby Prison Escape was one of the most famous (and successful) prison breaks during the American Civil War. Overnight between February 9 and 10, 1864, more than 100 imprisoned Union soldiers broke out of their prisoner of war building at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Of the 109 escapees, 59 succeeded in reaching Union lines, 48 were recaptured, and 2 drowned in the nearby James River. Libby Prison encompassed an entire city block in Richmond. To the north lay Carey Street, connecting the prison area to the rest of the city. On the south side ran the James River. The prison itself stood three stories above ground with a basement exposed on the river side. Living conditions were extremely bad; the food, sometimes lacking altogether, was poor and sanitation practically nonexistent. Thousands died there. The prisoners managed to break in to the basement area known as “rat hell” which was no longer used due to rat infestations, and dig a tunnel. After 17 days of digging, they succeeded in breaking through to a 50-foot vacant lot on the eastern side of the prison, resurfacing beneath a tobacco shed inside the grounds of the nearby Kerr’s Warehouse. When Col. Rose finally broke through to the other side, he told his men that the “Underground Railroad to God’s Country was open!” The officers escaped the prison in groups of two and three on the night of February 9, 1864. Once within the tobacco shed, the men collected inside the walled warehouse yard and simply strolled out the front gate. The tunnel provided enough distance from the prison to stealthily subvert those jurisdictional lines and allow prisoners to slip into the dark streets unchallenged.

3. Pascal Payet

There can be no doubt that this man deserves a place on this list - he has escaped not once, but twice from high security prisons in France - each time via hijacked helicopter! He also helped organize the escape of three other prisoners - again with a helicopter. Payet was initially sentenced to a 30 year jail term for a murder committed during the robbery of a security van. After his first escape (in 2001) he was captured and given seven more years for his role in the 2003 escape. He then escaped from Grasse prison using a helicopter that was hijacked by four masked men from Cannes-Mandelieu airport. The helicopter landed some time later at Brignoles, 38 kilometres north-east of Toulon, France on the Mediterranean coast. Payet and his accomplices then fled the scene and the pilot was released unharmed. Payet was re-captured on September 21, 2007, in Mataró, Spain, about 18 miles northeast of Barcelona. He had undergone cosmetic surgery, but was still identified by Spanish police.

2. The Great Escape

Stalag Luft III was a German Air Force prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel. In January 1943, Roger Bushell led a plot for a major escape from the camp. The plan was to dig three deep tunnels, codenamed “Tom,” “Dick,” and “Harry.” Each of the tunnel entrances was carefully selected to ensure they were undetectable by the camp guards. In order to keep the tunnels from being detected by the perimeter microphones, they were very deep — about 9 metres (30 ft) below the surface. The tunnels were very small, only two feet square (about 0.37 m²), though larger chambers were dug to house the air pump, a workshop, and staging posts along each tunnel. The sandy walls of the tunnels were shored up with pieces of wood scavenged from all over the camp. As the tunnels grew longer, a number of technical innovations made the job easier and safer. One important issue was ensuring that the person digging had enough oxygen to breathe and keep his lamps lit. A pump was built to push fresh air along the ducting into the tunnels. Later, electric lighting was installed and hooked into the camp’s electrical grid. The tunnellers also installed small rail car systems for moving sand more quickly, much like the systems used in old mining operations. The rails were key to moving 130 tons of material in a five-month period; they also reduced the time taken for tunnellers to reach the digging faces. “Harry” was finally ready in March 1944, but by that time the American prisoners, some of whom had worked extremely hard in all the effort to dig the tunnels, were moved to another compound. The prisoners had to wait about a week for a moonless night so that they could leave under the cover of complete darkness. Finally, on Friday, March 24, the escape attempt began. Unfortunately for the prisoners, the tunnel had come up short. It had been planned that the tunnel would reach into a nearby forest, but the first man out emerged just short of the tree line. Despite this, 76 men crawled through the tunnel to initial freedom, even through an air raid during which the camp’s (and the tunnel’s) electric lights were shut off. Finally, at 5 AM on March 25, the 77th man was seen emerging from the tunnel by one of the guards. Out of the 76 men only 3 evaded capture. Fifty men were killed and the rest were captured and sent back.

1. Colditz Escape

Colditz was one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II. The camp was located in Colditz Castle, situated on a cliff overlooking the town of Colditz in Saxony. There were numerous successful attempts at escaping Colditz, but one in particular is the most interesting. In one of the most ambitious escape attempts from Colditz, the idea of building a glider was dreamt up by two British pilots, Jack Best and Bill Goldfinch, who had been sent to Colditz after escaping from another POW camp. The plan was to construct a two-man glider part by part. The glider was assembled by Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best in the lower attic above the chapel, and was to be launched from the roof in order to fly across the river Mulde, which was about 200 feet (60 m) below. The officers who took part in the project built a false wall, to hide the secret space in the attic where they slowly built the glider out of stolen pieces of wood. Since the Germans were accustomed to looking down for tunnels, not up for secret workshops, they felt rather safe from detection. Hundreds of ribs had to be constructed, predominantly formed from bed slats, but also from every other piece of wood the POW’s could surreptitiously obtain. The wing spars were constructed from floor boards. Control wires were made from electrical wiring in unused portions of the castle. A glider expert, Lorne Welch, was asked to review the stress diagrams and calculations made by Goldfinch. Although the Colditz Cock never flew in real life, a replica of the Colditz glider was built for the 2000 Channel 4 “Escape from Colditz” documentary, and was flown successfully by John Lee on its first attempt at RAF Odiham with Best and Goldfinch in tearful attendance. While Best and Goldfinch did not escape Colditz (the camp was relieved by the allies just as the glider was nearing completion), they certainly had the most interesting and innovative method for executing it.

有監獄就有越獄。這張列表囊括了歷史上十次最膽大包天的越獄，進一步完善了我們對諸如躲避條子心得，完美犯罪心得，和獄中求生心得之類犯罪相關列表的收藏。

10. 梅茲越獄

這次不列顛歷史上最大的越獄發生在1983年9月25號北愛爾蘭安特里姆郡，38名犯有謀殺及爆破罪的愛爾蘭共和軍（IRA）囚犯從該監獄的7號高度管制所（H7）中逃離。一位獄官死於這次越獄引發的心臟病，其餘有20位受傷，其中兩位是被走私入獄的槍支擊中。梅茲皇家監獄被認爲是歐洲最強防逃監獄之一。除有15英尺高的護欄外，每個高度管制所都被頂端裝有刺網的18英尺混凝土高牆所包圍，而且所有設施上的大門都是精鋼打造的電動門。2：30剛過，逃犯就以槍口下的獄警爲人質佔領了高度管制所。爲了方便潛逃，有的逃犯還奪走了獄警的衣服跟車鑰匙。3：25時，一輛運輸食物的卡車開進了管制所，逃犯於是要挾司機幫助他們潛逃。他們把司機的腳綁在離合器上並指使他駕駛。3：50時卡車載着全部38人離開了高度管制區，進而很快離開了監獄。在接下來的幾天中，有 19名逃犯被捕。其餘逃犯在尋找避難所時得到了IRA的幫助。一部分逃到了美國不過後來又被捉住並引渡回國。由於政策關係，北愛爾蘭並未對餘下的逃犯展開積極搜尋並且部分逃犯已經獲得赦免。注意上圖中越過場地懸掛起來的鐵絲——自另一起嘗試性越獄事件之後，這便被設置起來以防止直升機降落。

9. 阿爾弗雷德 辛茲

不列顛罪犯及遁形藝術家“阿飛”辛茲因搶劫罪被判處12年徒刑，然後於服刑期間從3所高保安監獄中成功逃脫。儘管向上級法院的13次上訴都被駁回，辛茲最終還是依靠自己對不列顛司法體系的瞭解取得了特赦。在因珠寶搶劫罪被判處12年徒刑之後，辛茲遁形於諾丁漢監獄層層緊鎖的大門和20英尺高的獄牆中，媒體因此稱之爲“霍迪尼”（1874-1926，美國舞臺魔術師）辛茲。6個月後他被逮捕歸案。被捕之後，辛茲隨即對當局提出起訴指控典獄長非法逮捕，並讓人在法庭上偷運了一把掛鎖給他，借這次起訴策劃了他接下來的遁形。當兩名陪同阿飛去洗手間的警衛解開他的手銬時，阿飛將警衛推進隔間當中並將迅速將掛鎖扣在了同夥事先打在門上的螺絲孔中。他接着逃進費利特街的人流中但5小時後便在一個機場被捕。此後不到一年，辛茲又在切爾姆斯福德監獄完成了他的第3次越獄。其後辛茲一邊躲避蘇格蘭場的追捕，一邊不斷向不列顛的譯員寄去他的建議書並向媒體提供磁帶還接受採訪，以此申辯自己無罪。即使在被捕之後，他仍堅持不斷地拿自己的逮捕進行上訴。在最後一次向上議院的申訴中，辛茲抓住不列顛法律未將越獄列入輕罪之列這個程序性細節以理據爭長達3個小時，但這次上訴最終還是遭到了駁回，之後辛茲便回到了帕克赫斯特監獄去完成他的6年徒刑。上方圖片爲諾丁漢監獄--辛茲的首度遁形之所。[維基百科]
8
德州7惡

2000年12月13日，一組囚犯從肯尼迪鎮附近的約翰科娜利分監獄逃脫，他們便是德州7惡。歸功於電視劇《全美最高通緝》的直接作用，7惡於2001年 1月21日至23日之間全數被捕。2000年12月3日，7惡藉由他們天衣無縫的策劃從德州南部肯尼迪鎮附近的州級最高保安監獄，約翰B.科娜利分監獄中順利脫身。凌晨12：20左右，詭計多端的7惡便制服並監禁了9名平民維修組監工，4名監獄長官和3名無關獄友。越獄則發生在白天的午飯時間和點名時間這些最漫長的時段，因爲此時維修區等處的監視較爲鬆懈。在衆多伎倆當中，最讓7惡屢試不爽的一招是將受害者叫過來後再讓另一個人從後方進行頭部偷襲。一但壓制住受害者，罪犯們便脫掉他外面的衣服，然後綁起來將嘴塞住再鎖到一間電氣室裏。11名監獄工人和3名無關獄友經歷了上訴遭遇。襲擊者們搶走了受害者的衣物，信用卡及身份證。他們還在電話上裝成監獄長官編造故事來避開當局的懷疑。7惡最後終於通過層層阻礙達上了監獄維修用的皮卡車逃出了監獄。這組人中尚存的5名成員如今都正在死囚牢房中等待接受致死注射。至於另外兩名，一名走向了自殺，還有一名已被處決。

7. 阿爾弗雷德 偉茲勒

偉茲勒是一名斯洛伐克猶太人，同時也是已知的極少數在大屠殺時期成功逃出奧斯威辛死亡集中營的猶太人之一。有報告說偉茲勒和同他的一起潛逃的魯道夫坲伯共同收集了關於奧斯威辛集中營內部結構的各種資料，包括集中營的平面圖，毒氣室跟火葬場的建築細節，以及關於這些資料的可信度最具說服力的證據--一張從齊克隆毒氣罐上取下來的標籤。偉茲勒便是因爲這件事而著名。這份被稱爲坲伯-偉茲勒報告書的32頁資料集是第一份傳到西方戰線並取信於同盟國的關於奧斯威辛集中營的細節化報告。這些情報最終導致匈牙利境內數所政府建築被炸，殺死了那些協助用鐵路將猶太人放逐到奧斯威辛集中營的納粹軍官。放逐被迫停止， 120，000名匈牙利猶太人獲救。同偉茲勒一起逃脫的還有他的猶太同胞魯道夫坲伯。1944年4月7日星期五正好是逾越節前夕，當日下午兩點，兩名潛逃者在集中營地下組織的協助下鑽進了一個在一堆木材中掏空的藏身點中，這些木材將被用來建造關押新來者用的“墨西哥”區。該藏身點位於比克瑙滿布刺網的內部周邊陣地之外，但外部周邊陣地上的守衛整個白天都保持巋然看守。其他囚犯用木板蓋住掏空的區域將兩人隱藏起來，然後又將氣味沖鼻的俄國菸草浸泡過汽油後灑到藏身點周圍以糊弄守衛的狗。兩人藏了整整4個晚上以防被捕。4月10號這天，他們穿上從集中營裏拿走的荷蘭外套、大衣和靴子，照着坲伯在倉庫中找到的一本兒童地圖冊上撕下來的一頁地圖，順着索拉河一路南下前往距斯洛伐克80英里（133公里）遠的波蘭邊境。你可以在這裏讀到他們關於奧斯威辛集中營的報告。

6. 斯拉沃米爾 拉維奇

波蘭士兵拉維奇在德蘇侵略波蘭之後遭蘇聯佔領軍逮捕。隨着蘇聯和德國控制了波蘭，拉維奇返回了平斯克，然後於1939年11月19日在當地被蘇聯祕密警察組織抓獲。他被送往莫斯哥。先是被押送到哈爾科夫接受審問，隨後經過審判被關進了莫斯哥的盧比安卡監獄。拉維奇聲稱自己在監獄中成功忍受住了所有嚴刑逼供。其後他被假借間諜罪判處了25年苦工，在西伯利亞的一個監獄營地中服刑。他和成千上萬的其他囚犯一起被運到了伊爾庫茨克然後被迫步行來到北極圈南面 650公里處的303營地，在這裏將整個營地從地基開始修建。拉維奇聲稱他和其他六名夥伴於1941年4月9日趁着暴風雪逃離。他們迅速南下，避開城鎮以防暴露，不過很顯然並未遭到積極搜捕。途中遇到了另一名逃亡者，波蘭女士克里斯蒂娜。9天后，他們渡過了萊娜河。繞着貝加爾湖，他們來到了蒙古。所幸的是遇到的人都很友善好客。在穿越戈壁灘途中，兩人（克里斯蒂娜和馬科夫斯基）不幸去世。其他人爲生存被迫以蛇爲食。他們稱自己大約在1941年十月抵達了西藏。當地人相當地友好，尤其是當他們透露自己正試圖前往拉薩時。他們設法在隆冬時節跨越了喜馬拉雅山。其間一行人中又有一名在睡夢中死於嚴寒，另有一名跌入裂縫中銷聲匿跡。拉維奇稱倖存者約於1942年3月抵達了印度。

5. 逃出亞卡拉

在亞卡拉監獄長達29年的運作中，共發生有14起涉嫌囚犯34名的嘗試性越獄事件。據官方報道，每起越獄嘗試都是以失敗告終，而絕大多數案犯都或遭殺死或遭迅速重捕歸案。但是在1937年和1962年的越獄嘗試中，案犯卻消失得無影無蹤，雖然他們被推測已死，但這卻引發了不少認爲他們越獄成功的流行理論。在亞卡拉監獄最知名而錯綜複雜的一次越獄嘗試（1962年，6月11日）中，弗蘭克莫里斯和昂格林兄弟挖洞鑽出牢房，爬上監獄大樓的最頂層，鑿斷欄杆從通風道爬上了屋頂。從那兒他們順着排水管往下爬，越過一道勾花網然後來到海岸邊組裝了一隻浮筒式的筏子，之後便音訊全無。人們相信他們三人溺死在了舊金山海灣而官方也將他們列爲了據推測已溺死的失蹤案犯。不過他們也可能已經逃出生天並去到了一個沒有人認識他們的地方。

4. 利比越獄

利比越獄是美國內戰期間最著名（和成功）的幾次越獄之一。1864年2月9日到10日之間，在弗州里士滿市利比監獄內，100多名被囚的聯邦士兵從關押他們的戰俘設施中連夜逃離。109名潛逃者中，59名成功抵達了聯邦陣線，48名被重新抓獲，還有兩名溺死在附近的詹姆斯河中。里士滿的利比監獄環繞了整整一個城區。北面是連接監獄與城市其他區域的凱里街。南面淌着詹姆斯河。監獄本身由地上的3層樓和一個暴露在河邊的地下室組成。其生活條件極端惡劣；食物相當糟糕，有時甚至完全沒有，而環境衛生則幾乎沒這回事兒。成千上萬的人死在那裏。地下室因老鼠大量出沒已停止使用，囚犯們順利闖入了這個公認的“老鼠地獄”並在此挖出了一條遂道。挖了17天以後，他們成功地突破到了監獄東邊的一塊50英尺的空地下，並從鄰近的科爾倉庫中的一個菸草棚下破土而出。當科爾羅斯終於衝出隧道盡頭時，他告訴夥伴們“通往神之國度的地鐵開通了！”囚犯中的軍官們於1864年2月9日晚三兩成組地逃離了監獄。一旦來到菸草棚內，囚犯們便聚集在四面遮牆的倉庫場地上然後從前門闊步徑直走出去。隧道提供了足夠的距離讓潛逃者可以從監獄中悄然越過警衛線再毫無風險地溜到漆黑的街道上。

3. 帕斯卡 佩埃特

此人毫無疑問地在這張列表上當享有一席之位--他絕非一次，而是兩次從法國的高保安監獄中逃走--每次都是使用劫持來的直升機！他還出力組織了另外3名囚犯的逃離--還是用的直升機。最初，佩埃特因爲搶劫押款車時犯下謀殺罪而被判處30年監禁。首度越獄（於2001年）之後他被重新抓獲然後又因參與 2003年的越獄被加刑7年。他接下來又使用一架由四名面具男從戛納曼得里爾機場劫持而來的直升機逃離了格拉斯監獄。直升機隨後降落在位於地中海沿岸，法國城市土倫東北38公里處的布里格諾爾。佩埃特和他的同夥接着逃離了現場，駕駛員則被安全釋放。佩埃特於2007年9月21日在西班牙巴塞羅那東北18英里處的馬塔諾再度被捕。儘管接受了整容手術，他還是被西班牙警方給認了出來。

2. 大逃亡

勒夫特3號戰俘營是二戰期間德軍用來關押被俘空軍人員的一個空軍戰俘營。1943年1月，羅傑布歇爾領導密謀策劃了一次從戰俘營中發起的大型逃亡活動。計劃是挖3條代號爲“湯姆”，“迪克”和“哈里”的隧道。每條隧道的入口都要通過精挑細選以確保躲過戰俘營守衛的搜查。爲避免被周邊陣地上的聲納設備檢測出來，隧道被挖得很深--距地面約9米（30英尺）。這些隧道都很小，只有兩英尺寬（約0.37平方米），不過也挖有大洞穴來容納氣泵，一個工場以及沿各個隧道而建的數箇中途站。砂質的隧道壁側是用從營地各處拾荒來的木條加以支撐。隨着隧道不斷增長，一系列技術上的改進使得工程更加簡易和安全。需要解決的關鍵問題之一是讓挖掘者獲得足夠的氧氣來呼吸和照明。爲此，修築者們建造了一臺氣泵來將新鮮空氣沿管道系統推進隧道。同時還安裝了電動照明系統並將之接入了營地的電網中。修築者們還引進了類似舊式採礦系統中使用的小型軌車系統以便更快地運輸砂土。軌車系統關鍵性地確保了130噸材料的運輸在5個月內得到完成；同時也減少了挖掘者到達施工點所需要的時間。“哈里”最後終於在1944年3月完工，然而當時有一部分曾竭盡全力挖掘隧道的美國囚犯已被轉移到了另外一個關押區。爲了能夠在黑夜的掩護下進行逃離，囚犯們等待了大約一週才迎來了一個無月之夜。終於，在3月24號星期5，越獄敲響了旗鼓。然而，對於囚犯們來說很不幸的是，隧道破土不夠遠。原本計劃是讓隧道延伸至附近的一片森林中，但頭一個爬出去的人卻正好在樹林邊緣外現身。儘管如此，仍有76人爬出隧道重獲自由，其間甚至還遭遇了因空襲引發的營地（和隧道）斷電。最後，在3月25號凌晨5點，第77名爬出隧道的人被警衛發現。結果76人當中僅有3名躲開了追捕，50人被殺，其餘的全被抓獲送回。

1. 科迪茲越獄

在二戰期間德軍用以關押敵方軍官的戰俘營當中，科迪茲是最著名的幾所之一。該營坐落於科迪茲城堡內，這座城堡則聳立在薩克森地區一座俯瞰科迪茲鎮的懸崖邊上。不少逃離科迪茲的嘗試都獲得過成功，但其中有一次卻最爲有趣。這次嘗試名列科迪茲最雄心勃勃的幾次逃獄之中。在企圖逃離另一所戰俘營之後，不列顛飛行員傑克貝斯特和比爾葛芬奇被遣送來到科迪茲，他們於是在這裏提出了建造一架滑翔機的獨特構想。計劃是分步建造一架雙人滑翔機。該機就由比爾葛芬奇和傑克貝斯特在一所小教堂上方的低層閣樓中組裝出來，然後預計在屋頂起飛以便掠過下方200英尺（60米）處的幕爾德河。參與這個項目的軍官們在閣樓上建造了一堵假牆來隱藏後方的祕密工作點，他們便在其中用偷來的木材緩慢地將滑翔機修建起來。鑑於德國人習慣向下搜尋隧道，而不是向上搜尋祕密車間，軍官們都感到遠離了被查出的危險。成百上千條肋材需要拼裝，這些肋材主要來自牀板，但也來自戰俘們所能偷取的每根木頭。翼樑是用地板做的。控制線是用從城堡擱置區弄來的電線做的。一位滑翔機專家，羅恩威爾奇，被叫來檢查壓力圖示而葛芬奇則負責計算。儘管這隻科迪茲雄雞從未在現實生活中起飛，它的一架仿製品卻因2000年4 頻道播放的紀錄片《逃離科迪茲》而問世，並且在貝斯特和葛芬奇熱淚盈眶的觀望下，由李約翰駕駛,在奧迪厄姆英國皇家空軍基地中首次試飛便取得了成功。其實貝斯特和葛芬奇並未從科迪茲逃走（就在滑翔機即將竣工之時，盟軍解放了集中營），但是他們無疑想出了最新穎有趣的方式來上演這出越獄大戲。