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On the ground, all hell was breaking loose in America's only operating supermax prison. Guards scrambled for their weapons as the chopper drew closer.

It was chaos, and for a moment,

no one noticed the three prisoners who moved with purpose away from the prison,

passed the tennis and basketball courts,

and toward a restricted area near the South Gate.

We're running at full speed, and I'm telling you it seemed like we were going in

slow motion and I'm thinking damn at any moment here we could get shot in the back.

For these three men that chopper was their ticket to freedom. What was now

underway on this hot summer evening in late May in Marion, Illinois, was perhaps the most daring prison escape ever attempted.

The plan to hijack a helicopter, landed inside the prison walls, and then take off again was simple and brazen and most importantly

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