All news on the topic: Jail breaks

Plastic sandals, clothing, and furniture were all found strewn across the patio after Gang leader Jimmy Chérizier pledged to oust the country's acting prime minister Ariel Henry

Footage shows an Ecuador prison with "VIP cells" where prisoners enjoyed luxuries from alcoholic drinks, a disco and even a swimming pool as authorities battle drug gangs

Cesar Suarez was gunned down in a professional hit in the port city of Guayaquil this afternoon after he left his office to attend a court hearing about the TV hijacking

Journalist Alina Manrique of TC Television network in Guayaquil, Ecuador, has told how staff were "hunted down" and how she feared she "wouldn't see her children again" when an armed gang entered

Rival drug lord Fabricio Colon Pico, alias The Savage, has now escaped prison in Ecuador following Fito with President Daniel Noboa saying there is a "terrorist threat" against the country which is in chaos

Since Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was discovered missing from his cell in a low-security prison in Ecuador more attacks have burst out across the country

Former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman - known as El Chapo - will stay in his maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado after pleas to review his life sentence were ignored

Former EastEnders actor Sid Owen makes a dramatic escape from prison as he struggles to cope with life behind bars for a new Channel 4 social experiment TV show Banged Up

Daniel Abed Khalife is the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the former soldier outwitted guards at HMP Wandsworth and now airports and ports are on high alert

Michael Burham, who escaped from a Warren County, Pennsylvania, prison on Thursday night, may have been spotted overnight. The manhunt for the fugitive continues

The four inmates were found to be missing during a routine headcount at the Raymond Detention Center, Mississippi, on Sunday. One of the four is believed to have been killed shooting at police from a burning building

Thabo Bester, who targeted his victims by finding them on Facebook, was found "dead" last May after a burned body was left in his cell - but he was later spotted in shops and restaurants in an upmarket part of Cape Town

Alison McDonagh, 49, and Stephen McParland, 54, are said to be in each other's company and were last seen at Lanyon Place Train Station in Belfast on January 21 at 1.45pm

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara, the hosts of Watcher Production's "Ghost Files," went to the prisonoff the coast of San Francisco to investigate the rumours of it being haunted