Ten Best Prison Breaks From Government Cages

Escape From Alcatraz Best Price: $1.62 Buy New $6.97 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details) Tower of London (1597) Catholic dissenter John Gerard fled on a rope stretched from the Tower roof to a getaway rowboat.

Libby Prison (1864) Captive Union soldiers tunneled from this Virginia prison into a nearby yard; 109 walked away.

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Lake County Jail (1934) John Dillinger, brandishing a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish, bailed in the sheriff’s Ford.

Auschwitz (1944) Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler hid in a woodpile for days before trekking to the Slovakian border.

Stalag Luft III (1944) POWs excavated three tunnels below this Nazi stronghold. Only three of 76 men got away, but it’s still known as the Great Escape.

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July 1, 2009