Daring Prison Breaks

Crime Countdown

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From Alcatraz to the Tower of London, prisons are built to keep people in. But today's criminals dodged bullets, swam miles, changed their names—and even their faces—to gain freedom. Alaina and Ash decide which prisoner took the biggest risk… and if it paid off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you think about it, prison breaks are the most predictable of all crimes.
0:09.4	We lock inmates up in tiny confined spaces, force them to eat terrible food, barely let them
0:14.8	see sun, they can't even wear their own clothes. Even worse, we limit their social
0:19.7	contact, so the people most inmates talk to are, ding, ding, ding,
0:24.4	other inmates, convicted criminals.
0:26.8	Of course prisoners are going to plan escapes together.
0:29.6	So we make it a seemingly impossible task. A prison break is risky, daunting, and deadly.
0:35.9	Every precaution is taken to deter felons from busting out.
0:39.3	Escaped prisoners have to dodge bullets, swim miles across the ocean, change their names, and even
0:44.7	their faces with plastic surgery. And as far as which prison break was the
0:48.8	riskiest, that's today, the top 10 most daring prison breaks.
0:53.0	Real people who faced insane odds,
0:55.4	but were willing to try literally anything
0:57.9	just for a moment in the sun. The Hey all you weirdos welcome to the parcast original crime countdown I'm Ash and I'm Elena. Every week will highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling crimes all picked by the parcast research gods.
1:31.6	This week's topic is daring prison breaks. I'm gonna say it. I truly
1:36.3	feel like I would be a great prison escapee. I'm not gonna disagree with you. This is
1:41.2	something I just know I would excel at. I don't even
1:43.9	like yard work so I'm not going to sit there and imagine digging with a spoon.
1:47.5	Yeah I could definitely see that. I mean Ash's nickname still is and always was crash.
1:52.0	Not a quiet girl. No not. still is and always was crash.
1:53.0	Not a quiet girl.
1:55.0	No, not quiet.
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