Inmate: Escape from Loop federal lockup ‘not one you want to relive’ - The complete failure of security at Chicago's Federal M.C.C. Lock Up

In the World War II movie “The Great Escape,” the heroes tunneling out of a German prisoner of war camp used sledgehammer blows and singing to conceal their noisy digging. That technique — as well as luck and lapses in security — perhaps explain how two inmates managed to set up the audacious escape from a downtown federal lockup last year.

  Jose Banks' letter to the Chicago Sun-Times

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