New video reveals embarrassing flaws in Philadelphia jail where 2 inmates escaped, prompting 10-day manhunt

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New video reveals embarrassing flaws in Philadelphia jail where 2 inmates escaped, prompting 10-day manhunt
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The Philadelphia District’s Attorney’s office reveals the embarrassing details around the May 7th escape of two inmates from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on State Road.

New video shows exactly how two inmates escaped a Philadelphia jail earlier this year, sparking a 10-day manhunt. For the first time, the Philadelphia District’s Attorney’s office reveals the embarrassing details around the May 7th escape of two inmates from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on State Road. One of the inmates, an 18-year-old, wanted for four murders.

Video shows them opening their own cell doors, making their way, undetected, through common areas and finally escaping through a hole in an exterior fence that had been cut seven weeks earlier.Krasner also says one of the guards responsible for overseeing the cell block fell asleep, allowing the escape to go unreported for 19 hours.

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