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| Oregon inmates take advantage of staff complacency to attempt prison escapes |
| By oregonlive.com- Les Zaitz |
| Published: 01/24/2014 |
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Through the night, inmate Robert L. Emery broke windows, drilled out a door lock, broke into metal tool cages, bashed a hole in the laundry wall, lugged bags of tools, dug under one fence and climbed over another at the Oregon state prison near Ontario. No one noticed. Emery, exhausted and bleeding, gave up his effort that June night in 2010, huddling under a blanket in the prison yard until he was found. Just one day earlier, the entire prison had gone on alert during another escape attempt. Both inmates employed a well-worn, almost cliche, trick: creating dummies that they left behind in their bunks. In fact, Emery apparently fooled two different corrections officers into thinking he was fast asleep in Cell 301 of Complex 1 at Snake River Correctional Institution. State auditors subsequently blamed the two attempts on "complacency" among prison staff. Read More. |
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