John Patrick Hannan is an Irish prison fugitive who holds the record for the longest escape from custody. In December 1955, Hannan escaped
Fugitives who spent the longest time on FBI most wanted list in the U.S. 2022. Victor Manuel Gerena was the fugitive who had spent the longest time ever on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list as of March 2022, having been on the list between May 1984 and December 2016.
The most famous escape – William and Mary Bryant
William and Mary Bryant were part of an original group of nine prisoners who escaped from their prison colony in Botany Bay. They stole a governor's boat and sailed over five thousand kilometres in open sea, some of it still unchartered.
Natter: Word of the Day. On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to escaped prisoner, such as: defector, deserter, fugitive, runaway, dodger, and refugee.
Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con" ("ex-convict").
ADX Florence is a Supermax prison known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies. No one has escaped from the prison since its inception in 1994.
Mary Wade
The youngest ever convict to be transported to Australia at the age of 11. Her hideous crime was that she stole another girls clothes and for that she was sentenced to death by hanging.
After 93 nights in the Newgate Prison Mary set sail for Australia. King George III was declared mad. As a result, many waiting to be executed were instead bound for transportation to the penal colony of Australia. At 10 years old, Mary took voyage, the youngest ever convict, aboard the Lady Juliana.
Dorothy Handland (c. 1720- ), who, by 1786, was separated from her second husband and worked as 'an old clothes woman' (dealer), was estimated by Surgeon Bowes to be aged 82, and was recorded at Newgate Gaol as 60, was found guilty on 22 February 1786 at the Old Bailey, London, of perjury.
The "Old Gaol [Jail]" in Barnstable, Massachusetts, built in 1690 and operated until 1820, is today the oldest wooden jail in the United States of America.
Harry Houdini is without a doubt the most renowned escape artist the world has ever seen. But the act that caught the attention of the globe was his captivating and death defying stunt in Pittsbugh. On 16 November 1916, over 20,000 people gathered outside the Sun building.
Ivan Milat, (1944–2019) convicted of the murder of seven young men and women between 1989 and 1993; known as Australia's most prolific serial killer. His crimes are collectively referred to as the "Backpacker murders". Martha Needle, poisoner of four family members and boyfriend's brother.
Joseph Hakan Ayik, also known as Hakan Reis (born 31 January 1979) is a Turkish - Australian drug trafficker. He has an estimated net worth of 1.2 billion dollars, and was described in June 2021 as "Australia's most wanted man".
Ned Kelly's life in pictures: How bushranger became Australia's most famous criminal.
Samuel Speed, who died 150 years after the arrival of the First Fleet, is believed to have been the last surviving transported convict. Born in Birmingham in 1841, he was transported to Western Australia in 1866 after deliberately committing a crime - setting fire to a haystack - in order to escape homelessness.
On 9 January 1868 the convict transport Hougoumont arrived at the port of Fremantle. On board were 269 convicts, the last to be sent to Western Australia. The ship's arrival marked the end of 80 years of continuous penal transportation to the Australian continent.
South Australia was an experimental British colony and the only Australian colony which did not officially take convicts.
Mary Wade (17 December 1775 – 17 December 1859) was a British teenager and convict who was transported to Australia when she was 13 years old. She was the youngest convict aboard Lady Juliana, part of the Second Fleet. Her family grew to include five generations and over 300 descendants in her own lifetime.
During the second period, from 1814 to 1842, just over 5400 female convicts arrived. In 1840, the number increased significantly when transportation to New South Wales ceased, and all female convicts were shipped to Van Diemen's Land.
While today's children are thinking about Sugar Plum fairies and Santa Claus, the thoughts of ten year old Mary Wade must have been vastly different. At Christmastime in 1789, Mary was the youngest convict aboard a ship bound for Australia: one of two hundred and fifty or so women, half way to a strange land.
You will not leave your cell to meet with them. Guards will also deliver three meals a day to your cell. The only times you will leave your cell are for exercise and visitation. You can still receive visitors in supermax.
Unfortunately, the odds would be stacked against you for that last option. Only one group has managed to successfully break out of Alcatraz in its 30-year history. Out of 36 men who attempted to escape, 23 were caught, six were shot and killed, and the others drowned.
Prison Closure
On March 21, 1963, USP Alcatraz closed after 29 years of operation. It did not close because of the disappearance of Morris and the Anglins (the decision to close the prison was made long before the three disappeared), but because the institution was too expensive to continue operating.