The Saskatoon Redemption

Sorry, I just couldn't help thinking of the movie the Shawshank Redemption when I saw this story.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – Six high-risk prisoners escaped
a Canadian jail last summer after spending four months chipping a path
to freedom with nail clippers and other makeshift tools, according to a
government report released on Thursday.

The prisoners, four of whom faced murder charges, used their tools
to remove a heating grill and steel plate and win access to a brick
exterior wall.

While some inmates played cards at a carefully positioned table to
block the guards' view, others chipped away at the wall, finally
breaking through with a steel shower rod. They then used braided
blankets and bedsheets to scale a wall of the compound and escape.

I just love it, life imitating art.

Plus, of course, there is something delicious there about those prisoners being described as "high risk". High risk of what?

Escape?

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