WolfishMusings, what do u think is a bigger deal here, the escape iteself, sawing out of prison or laying low.
I don’t understand your question. You asked:
Finally, these prisoners have nothing, no money, no car, no passport…why cant police find them??
I posited that they may be getting help from the outside, which would definitely help them in laying low and avoiding detection. Your question (quoted above) does nothing to rebut my answer that they may be receiving outside help.
In any event, the bigger story now is the fact that they’ve avoided detection for so long.
A recent article in the Washington Post on 6/8/15 (sorry… the mods won’t allow links, but you can Google it easily enough) reported that, according to the Bureau of Justice, in 2013, there were 2001 instances of AWOL/escapee prisoners in the US — including 22 in New York alone — and that number is actually lower than in previous years. So the escape itself is really not all that remarkable.
On the other hand, most escapees are captured within hours. A Business Insider article (6/10/15) noted that, for most prisoners, their escapes lasted less than six hours. The longest escape in the last decade was for three days. Sweat and Richards have been out for five days so far. So, at this point, I’d have to argue that the length of the escape has eclipsed the escape itself in terms of newsworthiness.
The Wolf