#escape from prison

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"B.C. PEN FUGITIVE TELLS STORY: 'My escape a form of protest'," Vancouver Sun. May 28, 1973. Page 1 & 2. --- By DAVE STOCKAND Prison escapee John McCann, at large from the B.C. Penitentiary since May 19, expects to be caught-some day.

In the meantime, he's not going to worrу.

"I just don't have it in me to worry any more," he says. "I did all my worrying years ago when I was younger.

"My escape was a form of protest."

He describes the B.C. Penitentiary as one of the most secure prisons in Canada, "although this might sound like a ludicrous statement coming from myself.

These words come directly from John McCann.

The 27 year old fugitive, who was serving 21 years for armed robbery and assaulting a prison guard, telephoned me Sunday evening to set the record straight" on a number of stories arising out of the escape.

Later we met and talked at length.

McCann showed no nervousness and proved beyond my doubts in several hours of conversation with reminiscences going back to child-hood that he was in fact the fugitive.

"Yes, I'm Jack McCann, John Emitte McCann," he said. "My number in the Pen is 3384. I'm the guy that escaped last Saturday at a quarter after 12."

He showed me the palm of his right hand with lacerations he said he received scaling the last of three fences that stood between the prison grounds and freedom.

Omitting certain details to protect friends, McCann said he got over the first two fences without incident but there were two dogs outside the third fence.

"One was a German shepherd and the other I can't remember, a spaniel or something, and they were barking to beat all."

The barking attracted a man who had a truck parked nearby.

"He says, "I think you better go back inside. Meanwhile, there's nobody around but me and him.

"So I started climbing the fence anyway. As soon as I did that, he went back in his truck and took off."

"I got down to the highway. I just walked down. I didn't run."

"People said they saw me running with my hands bleeding. But as soon as I got over the fence, I just balled a handkerchief in my hand. My hand wasn't bleeding that much.

"In just minutes I was on my way to Vancouver."

He made the break unarmed, McCann said. "I did have a knife with me but I left it behind when I went over the fence."

As for the timing of the es cape, "I didn't really plan it until the Thursday afternoon (preceding the Saturday getaway). As a matter of fact, it flashed on me the day M (an inmate friend) came down from the hole."

McCann said he was in Vancouver for the weekend but would be gone again this morning

What would he do?

"I go to work when I get out. Almost every time I got out I got a good-paying job. I don't have anything about work, I love working.

"I work my ass off. I really do.

"Never in my life has it taken me more than two days to find a job at any time. If I see a job, even if I don't know anything about it, I'll go in in and I'll say: I know this and this. and I'll watch, and it doesn't take me long to pick it up."

McCann took exception in a Sun story last week reporting that sources inside the penitentiary linked him to an attempted mass breakout last December that was foiled in the planning stage.

These sources named him as the plot mastermind and described him as the "jail house gunsmith."

"I have never made a gun in my life." McCann said. "I was not the mastermind of the Christmas thing. I had no knowledge of it."

In his view, his escape was a protest on behalf of all inmates.

"They say the prisons are overcrowded and they haven't got the staff. Well, here in 1960, they had 830 inmates and they didn't have half the security staff they have now (and) they didn't have two barbed wire fences around the exercise area."

"It just doesn't make sense. They are no progressing, they are regressing. They're not going forward; they're going backwards.

I'd say in the B.C. Pen there are probably about 15 inmates of the 600 in there now that are security risks. I know I'm a security risk. I always have been.

"Me, I don't worry about that. I'm not even concerned about myself any more. But they've got to do something for the other guys.

"The B.C. Pen is a maximum security penitentiary. The majority of the inmates want the same regulations put into effect in the B.C. Pen that are in effect in every maximum security pen in Canada. Proper exercise, proper facilities, visiting."

McCann talked about his conviction arising out of an escape from Oakalla prison in which a guard was beaten with an tron bar.

"In 1967, when I escaped, there was a guard beaten up at Oakalla. On my criminal record - I had already spent 11, 12 years in jail or pens -that was the first mark of violence on my record.

"I don't care whether you believe it or not, I didn't have nothing to do with beating up the guard. Mind you, I was part of a conspiracy… two other inmates grabbed this guy and they were supposed to wrestle with him and while they're doing that, I'm going out the door… the guy was one of the better officers there, too.

On this aspect, he added: "I notice in the papers, too, they seem to make quite a thing of my record of violence. I'm not really that violent a person. I mean, I am if I have to be. But it's really got to be some thing personally affecting me or someone that's close to me."

Also acknowledging his drug addiction, McCann said: "I've only been caught once in my life for drugs and that was in the hole of the B.C. Pen last year… that's another thing you don't hear publicized too much. They were pretty upset.

"I shouldn't make a definite statement that I can stay out of drugs. I think I can make a definite statement saying that I can control my wanting drugs. If I do use them, I won't get wired to the extent I was before.

"Also I've always known where to go to get drugs at a quality and a quantity that isn't available, usually, to your street addicts. You don't see me going down to the corner downtown for a cap; I've never been involved in that hustle."

Isolation doesn't bother him, McCann said "I can be confined by myself for periods and periods of time and I couldn't care less."

What did bother him, he said, was not knowing why this punishment was being enforced on him for most of the 25 months he spent in isolation in the B.C. Pen.

He claims this stretch started when he came back to the penitentiary on a parole suspension. He was going through withdrawal from drugs but "they didn't have any room for me in the hospital, so they put me in isolation."

"While I was up in isolation mind you, I was sick - I was charged with trying to bribe an officer for $1,000. It was a 'set-up' most of the way, but I was at fault allowing myself to get in that position.

"I was given 60 days on bread and water and I did that. After I did the 60 days I made a request to see a classification officer, to be put back in the population, and I never saw anybody for four months.

"Every week I put in a re-quest on why I was up in isolation and the requests were ignored."

At this time, McCann was still making weekly court appearances on a series of charges. And on June 5, 1972, he made a break from the Vancouver public safety building but was recaptured minutes later.

"That was a spur-of-the-moment thing," he said. "I made the mistake of looking back and ran into a car.

"But I accomplished everything I wanted to by escaping last year. I got out of isolation.

"They put me down with the non-productive gang and eventually in the machine shop."

Then last December he went back to isolation, as part of the alleged gun conspiracy which he denies.

The successful break followed shortly after his return again to the general prison population

As for the future, McCann is resigned to an eventual return to prison.

"I'm going to get caught. I don't look forward to it but it's a fact of life.

"I mean, I just don't have the ability to disappear off the face of the earth. I don't think anybody has. That's why I don't worry.

"If I even worry about it, I get paranoid and I would end up probably putting myself in the position of getting caught.

"But my general knowledge (is) of knowing that I'm going to get caught sooner or later. I just don't worry too much about it.

"Like when I am returned to prison, well, I'm just hopeful that I'll be transferred back to Quebec… get into a program. But the B.C. Pen, there's nothing there for me. I couldn't see any daylight at all."

If legitimate freedom could be his, McCann said, he would like to work in the prison system or work with retarded children.

[McCann’s escape would culminate in the famous 1976 McCann v The Queen decision that would declare solitary confinement as then existing constituted cruel and unusual punishment or treatment in violation of the Canadian Bill of Rights.]

[hadleysmis]

Jean Valjean's sister, Jeanne, and her children

When we first see Kotaiah's (Jean Valjean) sister and her family, we see a niece ask Kotaiah for more food, and him pouring soup into her bowl.

In a later scene, we get to see his sister be afraid of starvation. As they have had their axe taken away by creditors, the threat of death of the whole family is shoved into high likelihood.

After being informed of his sister's death by his niece, Kotaiah escapes through the barred window of his jail to see his family.

The horror of the situation sinks in as he sees her limp body and her five children weeping and wail over her.

Inspector Javert refuses to do any help and arrests Kotaiah.

Kotaiah is ultimately, cruelly taken away. He is ripped from his family while sobbing.

[commanderofthegrey]

my opinion on the question of "were malcolm and leandra bad parents" is, as ever, "without a doubt, but you would be too in that situation" lol

[thatsbelievable]

[lazy30]

Day 7 : springtime revival/healing

Rivals Duo prompt week

Thank you @simplepotatofarmer for making this prompt! 🙌 Seeing all artists here is so amazing! :D

I'm so sorry I can't make it all days and like super late too ;-; but maybe just maybe if you make another prompt like this in the future I will join again and doing my best 👉👈

If you wanna see the speed paint for this hehe 👉👈

[primus-why]

I love the idea of Ratchet being captured while badly injured. It wasn't necessarily on purpose-- he knows the Cons would love to take him prisoner in order to utilize his medical skills, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Once they realized he was a medic they pulled him from the rubble and got him on a slab pretty quickly all things considered. The trouble is there's a reason the Cons value medical expertise-- he's bleeding out, they don't have enough supplies, and at this rate Ratchet knows he's gonna die. So with whatever strength he can muster he gets the attention of one of the grunts working on him.

Ratchet: H... hey... I need you... to pass on a message...

Con 1: To who, your Prime? Not gonna happen.

Con 2: Yeah we don't really do the 'any last words' thing.

Ratchet: No... *wheeze* to Deadlock.

Con 1 & 2: *go still*

Ratchet: Tell 'im... I'll... be waiting... for him...

Con 2: Wait a klik...

Con 1: ... You don't think--?

Con 2: -- Frag! Oh frag!! His vitals!!! Dealock is gonna kill us!!

Con 1: Scrap! Get Soundwave on the line, have him patch to the DJD!

Con 2: He's not gonna make it! I don't want them to know my face!

Con 1: It. won't. matter. If we wait, it'll look worse!

Con 2: Oh Primus, I hope they don't pick up...

Con 1: Just go!!!

Ratchet: ... I'm waitin' to... kick his aft... *passes out*

[fishcalcart]

Stars in his eyes

[lifewithaview]

Tim Robbins (Andy dufresne) hears the captain of the guards Clancy Brown (Byron Hadley) about being taxed on an inheritance and offers him his help for giving every prisoner 3 beers in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Dir.Frank Darabont

Nominated for 7 Oscars

Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red.

*Andy and Red's opening chat in the prison yard, in which Red is throwing a baseball, took nine hours to shoot because director Frank Darabont insisted on many takes of the scene before he was satisfied. Morgan Freeman threw the baseball for the entire nine hours without a word of complaint. He showed up for work the next day with his left arm in a sling.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Fugitives Go Shopping In Village Dodge Police In 'Pea Soup' Mist," Toronto Star. October 28, 1943. Page 33. --- Special to The Star Guelph, Oct. 28 - Rifle shots rang out in Morriston village last night. Four escaped inmates of the Guelph Reformatory were playing a game of hide and seek with provincial police and guards in a "pea soup" mist. Dense bushland and large swamp areas hindered the posse.

Residents of Morriston last night reported that the men were walking up and down the main street talking with children and making chases in one of the village stores. At high speed, police headed into the village from all directions; systematically combed every house and backyard in the rain and mist.

The inmates had tried to steal a car but couldn't get it started.

Provincial Constable Philip Seibert, of Guelph, heard running footsteps in the mist. He fired in the direction of the sounds and gave chase, but in vain.

The swamp area was quickly surrounded and police stood guard all night, intending to make a concentrated search in daylight.

The escaped prisoners are Norman Pringle, 20, Oshawa; George Whitefoot, 17; and Lyle Banks, 18, Sarnia; and Lawrence Johnson, 19, Windsor. Two are in army uniform, stolen from the prison laundry.

[bleue-flora]

Okay does anyone else find it bonkers that in a chest in the prison there’s an invite to Dream from Tommy to visit his hotel?

Like first off, what?!? - “If you escape from Prison, you are welcome to come” Second, it’s in the warden’s area so Sam never delivered Dream’s mail…. ya know because clearly it was too dangerous I guess…wtf

[carus26]

CEO`s morning routine

[the-barefoot-hatter]

if Ford thinks Icarus' problem was that he didn't flap hard enough... I wonder if Bill thinks about the Minotaur

[unstablemolecules]

i need to ask,,, where is Joe in the zombie au,,, pls tell.me hes a cool zombie,,,,

sad day because no zombie joe...

he'd be one of those shop keepers from video games that sells weapons/random stuff you need. Display katana for slicing zombies in half? he's got that. A brochure map of the city? he's got a couple and he'll throw one in for a good price (everything is horribly overpriced)

[redswaberkez]

nothing to show currently but these sick lines im really REALLY proud of

[an-albino-pinetree]

..I gave Jax a dagger. -v- 🗡️

Plot twist, he’s just acting out a part for Gangle >v>

[casually-eat-my-soul]

I lied, put your clothes back on. I’m going to explain how I think the wands in Harry Potter are tools that help the government control the population.