One of France's highest-profile prisoners escaped from jail on Wednesday by packing himself into a cardboard box. Embarrassed officials were at a loss to explain how Jean-Pierre Treiber, 45, a double murder suspect, managed to elude detection in the box he had built himself at a workshop in the high security prison of Auxerre, Burgundy. With its hidden human cargo, the box was loaded with dozens of others onto a lorry for delivery to the Yonne region, southeast of Paris. During the 100-mile journey, he broke free and leapt from the lorry. The driver only realised there was a problem once he had reached his destination, when he spotted a hole in the tarpaulin covering the boxes, some of which were flattened. Police have sealed off roads and a huge area of woodland in the hunt for Treiber using helicopters and sniffer dogs. Treiber has been in prison awaiting trial since 2004, charged with murdering French actor Roland Giraud's daughter Geraldine, and her friend Katia Lherbier. He is due to stand trial early next year in a case that shocked France. Treiber is believed to have sneaked inside a cardboard box at 10.30am on Tuesday while he was left alone in a prisoner's workshop. He had earlier told guards that he had an afternoon meeting with his parole officer – and nobody noticed his absence until later that evening, giving him seven hours to make good his escape. Source
Indeed he does! That's some crazy stuff I gotta say that prisoners/criminals are getting smarter by the generations =p
I think there are just too many prisoners and short of staffing to take care of the prisons for this type of stuffs to happen. (at least a lot more often these days since I read a jailbreak not long ago on here) As always, I think a workable solution is to implement the death penalty for those who committed heinous crimes and proven guilty. There is no point of life imprisonment or whatever because that just take up space and valuable resources. Tax revenue should be better spent and not use to build more prisons. It's ridiculous in the US. Prisoners on death row are getting everything free .. kinda live off the citizens. They don't have to worry about anything beside being locked up. I am not saying that it's good or whatever; just that prisoners appear to enjoy a carefree life in prisons with everything FREE. FGS, they even get their own lawyers to appeal or whatever .. all for FREE.
