How criminals break out of our prisons

A 20-year-old sex offender is on the run after escaping from a country Victorian jail.

Police in WA and Victoria have been hunting escaped prisoners today. Source: Supplied

POLICE in two Australian states have been hunting prison inmates who have broken out of jail, including one who has escaped before, and a "dangerous" sex offender.

The prison breaks come after a string of similar incidents across Australia in recent months where inmates have escaped while being transported between jails and even convicted murderers have managed to evade security and run free.

In Western Australia, detectives from the Regional Investigations Unit have been searching for Brett Shannon Klimczak who fled Acacia Prison early today.

The 31-year-old was recaptured about midday, after a police pursuit, in a suburb in Perth's east. His car became bogged and he was taken into custody after being surrounded by police.

Brett Shannon Klimczak was recaptured today after escaping a WA prison — his second escape in four years. Source: Supplied

Police allege Brett Shannon Klimczak was caught after a chase where his vehicle came to a stop after being bogged. Picture: Nine News Perth Source: Supplied

Brett Shannon Klimczak is back in custody. Picture: Nine News Perth Source: Supplied

Authorities have not said how he managed to get away but he was so determined to break out he injured himself busting through two razor wires, something the WA Corrective Services Minister Joe Francis admitted was a serious concern.

Klimczak has a history of jail breaks. In December 2010 he hot-wired a prison officer's vehicle and smashed through a prison compound while he was serving time for vehicle thefts and aggravated burglary.

During three weeks on the run he stole cars, petrol, registration plates, phones cash and clothing but was eventually tracked down by police after a manhunt through the desert.

WA Police are still seeking another inmate, 20-year-old Michael James Hayward, who broke free from custody when he was being transported from a hospital back to prison a week ago.

Escapee Michael James Hayward is still evading WA Police Source: Supplied

In Victoria today police are warning people not to approach Mana Lumm, 20, who had been at a youth justice facility.

Police would not say where he was being held or even when guards last saw him, despite their warnings for the public not to approach him.

A spokeswoman told the Herald Sun they could not provide the details for "legal reasons", but refused to specify what they were.

Lumm is described as caucasian, 175cm, of solid build with brown eyes and brown hair.

An image supplied by Victoria Police of Mana Lumm, a man who escaped from a correctional facility in central Victoria early this morning and is considered dangerous. Source: Supplied

Officers have searched the area where Lumm was living but so far have not been able to find him.

Another young man escaped from a correctional facility near Shepparton, in Victoria, at the weekend but was found and returned a few hours later.

Even though prisons are supposed to be near impossible to get away from, prison breaks are a regular occurrence.

There has been renewed concerns in recent months after a spate of escapes by sex offenders who have clipped off their GPS tracking bracelets. In the most high profile example an interstate manhunt begun after Sean Carmody-Coyle, one of Victoria's worst sex offenders, cut off his bracelet and fled a correctional facility on a mountain bike.

One of the most infamous jail breaks occurred in 1999 when bank robber John Killick and his Russian lover Lucy Dudko orchestrated a helicopter escape from a Sydney prison and spent 45 days on the run.

Killick told Channel Seven's Sunday Night program how the couple devised the daring plan during her regular visits to see him.

Dudko hired a three-seater helicopter for a joy ride over the Sydney Olympic stadium that was being built at the time as a test run. A week later she hired it again and threatened pilot Tim Joyce with a gun.

John Killick famously escaped jail when his girlfriend hijacked a helicopter. Source: News Corp Australia

Joyce told the program he realised something was wrong was when Dudko asked him to "take a closer look" at the prison.

"I looked over my shoulder … and as I looked back she had pulled a pistol out of her purse and she put it to the side of my head and said "this is a hijack"," Joyce told reporter Mike Willesee.

"He got in the chopper and said, "You can either make a lot of money from 60 Minutes or you can be dead"."

Their escape may have been straight out of a Hollywood thriller but others have been just as daring.

John Killick spoke about his daring chopper escape from a Sydney prison on Channel 7's Sunday Night program. Source: Supplied

In fact, they may have got some inspiration from a similar brazen attempt at freedom that occurred in the United States in 1985.

James Rodney Leonard, 20, was serving a life sentence for murder in a maximum-security prison in South Carolina. It was supposed to be escape proof.

A friend of his, Joyce Mattox, chartered a helicopter at a nearby airstrip and as it lifted off she pulled a gun out of her purse and forced him to fly to the prison, where 200 inmates were in the yard doing their daily exercise.

Five tried to board the chopper and a fight broke out where Leonard shoved two aside with two others climbing aboard.

But it was still overloaded and only just made it over the barbed wire fence on the prison walls as guards opened fire on them.

They had only a brief taste of freedom after being quickly arrested.

Another infamous example was in 2000 when a group of inmates dubbed the "Texas 7" escaped from the John Connally Unit by pulling off an elaborate scheme involving attacking guards, removing their clothing and gagging them.

They did this to eleven prison workers in total — taking credit cards and identification from their victims. The group then impersonated prison officers on the phone and created false stories to ward off suspicion from authorities, and eventually made their way to the prison maintenance pick-up-truck which they used to escape from the prison grounds.

Despite these horror stories prison breaks in Australia are still incredibly rare with the vast majority of prisoners staying behind bars where they belong.

In most states the escapes are from minimum security prisons and Corrective Services has previously said there were spikes in escapes from time to time.

Police search for an escaped prisoner around the outskirts of Darwin after another break out earlier this year. Source: News Corp Australia

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