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| Officials say they foiled Death Row escape plot |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/31/2004 |
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Georgia Department of Corrections officials say they foiled an escape plan by some death row inmates at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Corrections spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb provided few details of the alleged plot on Monday, saying only that authorities discovered it on Friday. "At no time was inside or outside security threatened or breached," Lipscomb said. She said prison officials received "some intelligence" that some of the 112 death row prisoners planned to escape, but she would not identify the inmates or how many were involved. A search of cells uncovered evidence of the plan, Lipscomb said. No inmate has escaped from death row at the Jackson prison. In 1980, when death row was at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, four condemned inmates sawed through three sets of bars, climbed onto a fire escape and, dressed in homemade correctional officers' uniforms, fled in an automobile belonging to one of their family members. Three were caught in North Carolina after two days. The fourth was beaten to death in a bar dispute over a woman. |
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