page_title: Prison escape
hierarchical_section_title: Prison escape
caption_attribution_description: English: United States Marshals Service Prisoner Security and Transportation (Special production)
context_page_description: A prison escape is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers. Escaping from prison is also a criminal offense in some countries, such as the United States and Canada, and it is highly likely to result in time being added to the inmate's sentence, as well as the inmate being placed under increased security that is most likely a maximum security prison i.e. supermax prison. In some other places like Germany and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself.
  Many prisons use security features such as motion sensors, CCTV, barred windows, high walls, barbed wire, razor wire, and electric fencing to prevent escapes.
context_section_description: A prison escape  (referred as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers. Escaping from prison is also a criminal offense in some countries, such as the United States and Canada, and it is highly likely to result in time being added to the inmate's sentence, as well as the inmate being placed under increased security that is most likely a maximum security prison i.e. supermax prison. In some other places like Germany and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage).
  Many prisons use security features such as motion sensors, CCTV, barred windows, high walls, barbed wire, razor wire, and electric fencing to prevent escapes.
caption: U.S. Marshals observing a prisoner transport to prevent escapes
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