Log: Prison

PRISONERS' INVENTIONS by Temporary Services http://www.temporaryservices.org/pi_overview.html

Marc Steinmetz photography Escape Tools http://www.marcsteinmetz.com/pages/fluchtstuecke/efluchtstuecke_minis.html

Nazi Prison escape:Niki Surmanowicz and Mietek Schmiel, bedsheet rope http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/cold_03.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_escape_Oflag_IV-C

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/colditz.html

A film called "A Man Escaped" by Robert Bresson

Mt Eden prison shimmy down

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/2165964

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10509732
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4523488a11.html

http://freeipodsetc.co.uk/blog/prisoner-escapes-using-arope

Women's Prison sheet escape, Deventer, Netherlands

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/165814/

corrections officers' stories on MythBuster Prison break episode forum:

"When using sheets to make a rope, inmates don't use the entire sheet. They will take a stolen razor blade, cut about a 1 inch strip down the long side of the sheet. Then trade the sheet in for a new one (cutting on it only once). They'll repeat this until they have enough strips to braid it together for a rope."

"Finally our staff actually just found some bed sheets braided with 1 foot sections of wooden broom handles made into a rope ladder."

200-foot rope he had cobbled together from sheets, blankets and pieces of inmate uniforms

"Toilet Paper rope was not done like our inmates do. they twist the rope then braid it then wet and let it dry. if you repeat this a couple times it is just as strong as rope."
Toilet paper rope is actually used for rope in prisons. I visited my local jail as part of my study and they had shanks, "rocks" made out of paint, and of course rope made out of toilet paper. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/99436/the_flight_of_john_parsons_the_most.html?cat=8

http://www.mcccj.com/news2003/509.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/jack-sheppard