Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem; he was right outside the wall. Local roads were swiftly blocked off. But prison officials needed 45 minutes before they could organize a full-scale search. With six bloodhounds in the lead, a posse started after the group, which had disappeared in the direction of Frozen Head Mountain...
...daybreak Saturday, Ray and the five others were still at large. Meanwhile, Brushy Mountain officials could pick up no clues on the prison grapevine. Said C. Murray Henderson, Tennessee corrections commissioner: "We are dealing for the most part with hardcore prisoners who live by an inmate code. They aren't going to tell anybody anything...
Then, at 1:45 p.m., a helicopter spotted a man walking by himself eight miles northwest of Brushy Mountain. A police car swiftly picked up David Powell, 27, a convicted murderer and the only black in the group. He offered no resistance. It turned out that he was the only convict from another cell block?he came from B?and guards theorized that he had had nothing to do with planning the break, that he saw men going up a ladder and simply joined the crowd. After the break, the others told Powell to find his own way. Shortly after...
...Attempt to escape from Brushy Mountain Prison on May 3, 1971. Ray left a dummy in his cell, used tools provided by another inmate to remove a concrete block in his cell, crawled into an air chamber, ripped the bars from a ventilation fan and slipped into the prison courtyard. There, using a crowbar, he pried open a manhole cover to enter a steam tunnel leading out. But its 400° heat drove him back...
...Second escape attempt from Brushy Mountain, Feb. 5, 1972. Ray somehow got a hammer and a homemade saw, tried to cut a hole through the wooden ceiling of a room next to an auditorium where prisoners were watching a movie. But the film ended before he finished, and he was caught...