Prison Break in the USA – level 3

01-08-2017 15:00

Three prisoners filmed their escape from the maximum-security wing of a jail in the USA in 2016 by using a mobile phone that someone smuggled into the facility. The footage shows them crawling through an air vent and using bedding to aid their escape. The prisoners also cut through four layers of steel grating to escape from the California prison.

Police eventually caught the inmates after a week-long manhunt.

Difficult words: wing (a large area of a building), aid (help), grating (bars), inmate (a prisoner), manhunt (a search for a person or people).

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