![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's instantly identifiable around the world." "It's close to New York City, it's been in a lot of movies and it's got that unusual name. "Sing Sing captures people's imagination," Ossining police Capt. His first escape, in 1932, was from Sing Sing, when he used a makeshift wire ladder to scale an unmanned wall. ![]() Willie "the Actor" Sutton, who famously robbed banks "because that's where the money is," broke out of jail five times in his career. Some escapees left dummies in their cells, others disguised themselves in guard uniforms to try to slip out, and one man even sewed himself inside a mattress that was being removed from the prison. Since opening in 1826, the prison "up the river" from New York City has seen dozens of escapes and escape attempts, using a variety of sometimes ingenious methods. – Last week's escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility by two murderers who cut through cell walls and crawled out of a manhole has invited comparisons to Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption - but Ossining's notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility provides plenty of examples of real-life breakouts rivaling anything Hollywood can dream up. Watch Video: Prison escapees through history have been very creative ![]()
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