Four inmates at a federal prison camp in Texas used dummies to outsmart their guards and skip out for the night, and at least two were in a mission to bring back some form of contraband. The office is the internal watchdog for the federal agency, which is responsible for about 153,000 federal inmates spread across 122 prisons throughout the country. Such facilities typically house inmates deemed low-risk, such as those convicted of minor drug crimes or white-collar offenses. In a move straight out of the 1994 film Shawshank Redemption, some even use dummies to make their beds look occupied. 'Gaps in security at federal prison camps and satellite prison camps present risks that inmates will escape and, if they return, smuggle contraband back into facilities undetected, which endangers the community.'

Source: Daily Mail June 07, 2021 18:22 UTC