NJ Launches Manhunt For 2 Escaped Inmates, Reviews Jail Security
December 17, 2007
Kris Alingod - AHN News Writer
Elizabeth, NJ (AHN) -- Authorities are reviewing security at a New Jersey jail as a manhunt continues for two inmates who escaped over the weekend after a Hollywood-inspired jailbreak.
Jose Espinosa, 20, and Otis Blunt, 32, broke out of the Union County jail on Saturday through holes in the walls of their adjacent prison cells. They had removed cement blocks from the walls and covered up the holes with magazine photos of women in bikinis. Espinosa and Blunt also used dummies in their beds to keep prison guards from searching for them, according to the county prosecutor's office.
Both inmates were able to scale the jail's 25-foot-high fence. They had been held in a special area that was supposed to be the most secure section in the 15-floor jail.
The jailbreak has caused officials to prohibit inmates from putting up pictures on the walls of their jail cells.
"I'm extremely disturbed that a jail with the capability of security it has would foster a breach of this nature," County Prosecutor Theodore Romankow told The Star-Ledger on Monday as officials reviewed security in the Union County jail.
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