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Prison escapes in Ohio are rare, short-lived
By norwalkreflector.com
Published: 12/29/2014

Corrections officers in the 1970s called the practice of prisoners creating tools out of everyday items to help them escape “mush-faking.”

Prisoners would flatten and sharpen metal spoons to slice like razors. They also reinforced ballpoint pens to dig through mortar in the brick walls, making mortar walls a problem, said former corrections officer David Meyers.

But the tales of Ohio inmates making daring escapes with makeshift tools are mostly history. There hasn’t been a long-term escape in the state since 1992.

That escapee, Roger D. Perdue, walked away from his work detail at the London Correctional Institution in Madison County. He was caught earlier this month in Indiana, where he had been living under an assumed name. He is now 71 and will serve the remaining five years of his sentence for grand theft.

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