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Article: Texas prison escapes few and far between despite recent successes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 22, 2002
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FORT WORTH, Texas_The images are enduring: a downed police officer, seven men on the run, a protracted manhunt, a suicide and a final showdown in the snowy hills of Colorado.
When seven inmates escaped from a South Texas prison on Dec. 13, 2000, they set the stage for a media blitz that vaulted the state prisons into the national spotlight.
A rash of recent, high-profile breakouts from North Texas county jails have further nourished the notion that getting out from under the thumb of law enforcement in Texas is, as one recaptured county inmate said, "easy a joke."
The Texas prison system lost another inmate Sunday from Abilene. John William ...