At least four people escaped Philadelphia's prisons last year.
In the last year, at least four people have escaped from Philadelphia’s city prisons, some briefly and others for days on end, shining a spotlight on issues in the city’s jails, including short staffing and increased violence.
In May, Ameen Hurst, 18, and Nasir Grant, 24, broke out of Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, the result of multiple institutional failures that caused their disappearance to go unnoticed by correctional officers for nearly 19 hours.First, the two manipulated their cell doors open, walked down the hallway, then crawled toward a door as another prisoner, also out of his cell,. Hurst and Grant then crawled through a hole in a chain-link fence that had been cut weeks earlier.
, escaped while doing supervised work behind the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Complex in the Northeast. Officials said he asked his supervising guard for permission to use the restroom, then jumped the jail’s fence and fled through the neighboring sanitation plant. At a virtual City Council hearing on the matter last November, problems in the prison system were laid bare, including ongoing staffing shortages, a decades-old video surveillance system that is difficult to use and not monitored in real time, and external motion sensors that were not functioning when Grant and Hurst broke out.
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