Terry Brown was a 42 year old inmate at SCI-Dallas. In January 1998, he's said to have tried to escape in a prison truck. Police claim to have nabbed him in a phone booth only 5 miles from the institution.
This is the kind of fellow who gives prisoners a bad name.
The official version of the episode is that while working outside the prison like a good little prisoner, Brown splashed gasoline on a prison worker and knocked him around with a hunk of lumber.
I'm certain that the taxpayers are relieved that Brown didn't have civilian clothes. With a truck, a 2 by 4 club, gasoline and a five hour head start perhaps he didn't need them. Maybe he shouldn't have had the quarters for the phone calls, however.
Prisoners around the state are wondering how the Department Of Corrections will punish all of them for the escape attempt. Like with the Nazis during World War II, it's become standard procedure for the DOC to punish the innocent. The guys at SCI-Dallas are preparing for the prison-wide "shake down" which the DOC will use to viciously punish the prisoners who dared to share an institution with a man who was brave enough to try to escape.
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