List of prison escapes
People who escaped multiple times

List of prison escapes

Section Title: People who escaped multiple times
Table Section Text: None

Name	#	Date	Prison name	Country	Details

Jacques Mesrine	5	1969, August 17	Prison de Percé	CAN

1972, August 21	Saint-Vincent-de-Paul	CAN

1972, September 3	Saint-Vincent-de-Paul	CAN

1973, June 6	Palais de Justice Compiègne	FRA

1978, May 8	La Santé	FRA

François Besse	7	1971, May 9	Prison de Gradignan	FRA

1975, October 20	Prison de Fresnes	FRA

1978, May 8	La Santé	FRA

1979, July 26	Palais de Justice, Brussels	BEL

Rédoine Faïd	2	2013, April 13	Maison d'arrêt de Lille-Sequedin	FRA	Most wanted criminal in France in 2013. Nicknamed by some as the 'King of Kalashnikovs'.

2018, July 1	Prison of Réau, France	FRA

Brian Bo Larsen	22	? - 2014	Vridsløselille prison (in 2014)	DEN	In 2005, he succeeded to escape by hiding in a container, with the complicity of workers from the waste collection services.

Nachman Farkash	5	1960s - 1970s	Ayalon (Ramla) Prison (1960s)	ISR

George Feigley	2	1970s	SCI- Rockview, 1976 Taylor County Jail, 1978	USA	In 1976, sex cult leader and convicted rapist George Feigley escaped from SCI- Rockview in Pennsylvania. In 1978 was recaptured in West Virginia, but soon escaped from the Taylor County Jail in Grafton.

Moondyne Joe	5	1833 (+/-)	Borstal institution (youth detention)	GBR	Joseph Bolitho Johns (1826–1900), better known as Moondyne Joe, was Western Australia's best known bushranger.

1861, August	Toodyay lockup	AUS

1865, November	AUS

1866, August	AUS

1867, March 7	Fremantle Prison	AUS

Yoshie Shiratori	4	1936	Aomori Prison	JPN	Yoshie Shiratori (1907-1979), known as the "Showa Era escape artist". In 1983 a novel based on Shiratori’s life, Hagoku (literally, Prison Break), was published by Akira Yoshimura and in 1985 the book was converted to a made-for-TV-movie by NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

1942	Akita Prison	JPN

1944	Abashiri Prison	JPN

1947	Sapporo Prison	JPN

Jack Sheppard	4	1724, April	St Giles's Roundhouse	GBR	Sheppard (1702 – 1724) was a robber, burglar and thief of early 18th-century London. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure.

1724, May 25	New Prison	GBR

1724, August 31	Newgate Prison	GBR

1724, October 15	Newgate Prison (the "Castle")	GBR

Steven Jay Russell (born 1957)	4	1992, May 13	Harris County jail	USA	He is a U.S. con artist.

1996, July 13	Harris County jail (2)	USA

1996, December 13	Maximum Security Estelle Unit in Huntsville, Texas	USA

1998, March 13	Maximum Security Estelle Unit (2)	USA

Alfred George Hinds (1917 – 1991)	3	1955	Nottingham Prison	GBR	He was convicted for a jewelry robbery and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1953. He escaped from Nottingham Prison after sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall.

1956	Law Courts in London	GBR	After his arrest, he brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and used the incident to plan his next escape.

1957	Chelmsford Prison	GBR	He escaped from Chelmsford Prison less than a year later. Two years later he was arrested after being stopped in an unregistered car.

Collen Chauke (1970 – 2003)	3	1993	Johannesburg Prison	RSA	He was convicted for car theft and sentenced for four years imprisonment. He escaped from prison after serving only one month of his sentence.

1997	Pretoria Prison	RSA	He was found guilty of robbing R12,6-million from a depot of the SBV security company in Pretoria in October 1997. He manage to escape from Pretoria prison with five others in December 1997.

1998	Pretoria Prison	RSA	He escaped from prison and manage to evade the police for a year until he was recaptured in 1999 in Nelspruit.

Richard Lee McNair (born 1958)	3	1988	Minot municipal police station	USA	He used lip balm to squeeze out of handcuffs.

1992, October	North Dakota State Penitentiary	USA	He escaped by crawling through a ventilation duct.

2006, April 5	United States Penitentiary, Pollock	USA	He mailed himself out of prison in a crate. McNair was captured in October 2007 in Canada and is now held at the ADX Florence supermax facility in Colorado.

Willie Sutton (1901-1980)	3	1932, December 11	Sing Sing	USA	He was an American named “The Actor” and “Slick Willie”. In June 1931 he was sentenced to 30 years on charges of assault and robbery.

1945, April 3	Eastern State Penitentiary	USA	He was one of 12 convicts who escaped the institution through a tunnel. He was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia police officers, his fifth escape attempt at this prison.

1947, February 10	Philadelphia County Prison	USA	He and other prisoners dressed as prison guards and escaped via ladders across the prison yard to the wall.

Pascal Payet	2	2001, October 12	Luynes prison	FRA	Payet (born 1963) is a French criminal who gained notoriety for his daring prison escapes using helicopters. He was initially sentenced to a 30-year jail term for a murder committed during the robbery of a security van in 1997.

2007, July 14	Prison in Grasse	FRA

John Dillinger (1903-1934)	2	1933, October 13	Allen County Jail	USA	He was a notorious bank robber who operated throughout the Midwest during the Great Depression. He broke out of the Allen County Jail in Lima, Ohio by having his gang pose as officers and infiltrate the prison.

1934, March 3	Lake County Jail	USA	Officials boasted that the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana was escape-proof and posted extra guards, but he escaped using a fake gun.

Richard Matt (1967-2015)	2	1986, October 13	Erie County Correction Facility	USA	In 1986, at age 19, Matt was convicted and sentenced to a year in jail. The term was interrupted when Matt, taking advantage of a guard’s mistake, slipped out of his cell, scaled a 9-foot brick and metal wall topped with razor wire and hopped a freight train to his brother’s house in Tonawanda.

2015, June 6	Clinton Correctional Facility	USA	On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat, both serving sentences for murder, escaped from the facility. A prison employee, Joyce Mitchell, was charged with aiding their escape.

Joaquín Guzmán Loera (born 1954 or 1957)	2	2001, January 19	"Puente Grande" Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation No. 2	MEX	On 19 January 2001, Francisco "El Chito" Camberos Rivera, a prison guard, opened Guzmán's electronically operated cell door, and Guzmán got in a laundry cart that maintenance worker Javier Camberos rolled through several doors and eventually out the front door.

2015, July 11	"Altiplano" Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1	MEX	In his second escape from the prison, he escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower area to a home construction site 1.5 km (0.93 mi) away in a Santa Juanita neighborhood.

Frank Abagnale (born 1948)	2	British VC-10 airliner (while deporting)	USA

1971, April	Federal Detention Center, Atlanta, Georgia	USA

Philip Andrew Marshall (born 19??)	5	2018, February 19	Bedford County Jail, Shelbyville, Tennessee	USA	Escaped six times over the years.

Sentence(s)

Willie Sutton escaped three times from the prison.

final_sentence: Willie Sutton escaped three times from the prison.