that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." /*. a port cyclist drags a deputy across a highway. i thought i was going to die that day. >> a suspect attacks an officer behind a desk. >> he reaches for my gun holster. he was going to pull my gun on me and kill me. >> an exconplows a hole from a maximum security wall. >> nobody has seen anything. >> caught on camera, audacious jail breaks. savage beatings. >> they were going to bed a menstering their own form of jail -- >> one of the most notorious prison riots in history.

>> the rifles didn't stop them. >> "caught on camera, inmates and outlaws". >> when dealing with dangerous people out on patrol or inside prison walls, members of law enforcement know never to let down their guard. because the minute that happens, something terrible could unfold. one ohio officer learned that lesson the hard way. >> a late night arrest leads to sudden violence. >> this was a person woes intent was clearly to hurt someone. >> this came out of the loop. he did not see it coming. >> a fight for his life. >> you don't know how it's going to end. >> may 15th, 2011. oleria, ohio. 3:00 a.m. sunday. police are called to the house

of 29-year-old anthony thomas, whose girlfriend calls 911 after a fight. officer william witt arrests thomas when he realizes he has an outstanding warrant for contempt of court. thomas doesn't resist t. drive back to the station uneventful, except for one brief exchange. >> at some point in that time frame, mr. thomas made a comment, i can smell the fear on you. officer witt replies with i'm not afraid of you. >> witt, a 17-year-old veteran doesn't think much of the comment. >> it's not uncommon for someone we are going to arrest to act tough and want to say things while they're in handcuffs and you take the handcuffs off of them like you would do in the booking area and rarely follow through with everything. >> after removing the cuffs, the officer moves behind the counter. what happens next catches witt off guard. >> he jumps over the counter right at officer witt.

>> leaping nearly 4-feet in the air. he attacks mr. witt. >> he resecures his pants, moves back to get himself in position to go over the counter. so it's clearly thought about. it's not just something that happened. >> officer witt fends off his assailants a slams him down on the floor. >> he pushes his hands forward to stop the attack. there is an intense struggle. there is snow way i would want to encounter officer witt. his size alone, his stash dhur is intimidating. >> officer witt is probably the biggest officer on the department. he's around 6'6." >> 6' 2," 180 pound is unmatched it's a matter of second before he springs up ap overpowers the officer. >> he is trying to get officer witt in what looks like a choke hold t. officer is able to push away from that. you see him go to the phone. he's going to calm for help. >> that phone is the officer's lifeline.

but before witt can make the call, thomas maneuvers behind him to take control and that's when the fight takes a potentially deadly turn. >> he definitely did try to go for the gun. >> but the gun is not in the holster. >> mr. thomas thought that officer witt still had his weapon. >> earlier that night, witt brought thomas in through the secure sally port. >> prior to bringing him into the booking area, he removed his handgun and put it in the gun locker. >> thomas did not see the officer put his gun away, which is why he continues to go after it forces witt to turn to defend himself. the violence escalates. >> it's an all out fight. there was a lot of wrestling going on. to me, it looked like he was hit full force. >> dislodging the receiver gets the attention of the dispatcher. >> the dispatcher tina thompson saw officer witt on camera and he was kind of humped over, lunged over. she thought he was having

medical distress. she immediately got on the radio and said officer needs help. >> he grabs the officer's neck and applies a strangle hold. >> i am sure to officer witt it seems like a lifetime. that's what it is, seconds seem like hours. you fight somebody straight for 30 seconds, it takes all your energy away. he not him for a minute and 5 second left. >> just when he seemed like he might suffocate him. officer witt find a reserve of strength. >> his hands around thomas' neck. you see thomas slowly starting to lose the fight. >> in a situation where a policeman or anybody is fighting for their life, deadly as far as justified. >> after witt regains control, almost 30 seconds before backup arrives, the officer let's go, thomas continues to struggle. >> once oak, mr. thomas didn't give up. trying to handcuff somebody who doesn't want to be handcuffed is

not an easy task. the officers were holding down his shoulders, his lex finally were able get him handcuffed. >> anthony thomas is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to loran county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on a contemptive court charge, a low grade misdemeanor. he left our department with assaulting an officer, a felony charge. >> he pleads guilty and is convicted and sentenced to time served plus three years probation. he must undergo psychological treatment and evaluation. officer witt sustained middle eastern injuries. >> we don't have time to be afraid. we react. it's afterwards, that's when you think to yourself, wow, it could have been bad. >> coming up, a deputy gets taken for a ride across a busy highway.

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motorcycle at a high rate of speed. >> it was all caught on dash cam? i thought i was going to die that day. >> west palm beach florida, beautiful weather year round, wide freeways the sunshine state is a playground for renegade drivers. >> on a daily basis you see people on i-95 driving crazy,

very fast speeds, 140, 150 miles an hour. >> the deputy is a member of the palm beach aggressive unit. >> they are out there, they're blind. they have no sense of how fast they're going. >> at 62-years-old the veteran deputy thought he saw it all. until the afternoon of march 29th, 2011. >> the day started routinely for me, running my measuring device on i-95, detecting speeders i normally get 25 miles an hour over the speed limit before i will look at you. >> he is parked under an overpass when suddenly a motorcycle blows by. >> the speed limit on i-95 is 65 miles an hour, he went 112, in and out of traffic. >> the officer shadows him about 5 miles on an offramp to a red light. >> he never knew i was behind him. i got out of my vehicle as quickly as i could.

>> as he approaches the suspect, he senses something is going to happen. >> i can just see the way he stared a whole e hole through me. >> what happens next literally blows him away. >> i saw him reach for the clutch on the motorcycle. i grabbed him on the shoulder blade, he hit it and took me off my feet, within a second i was going too fast to let go. >> blazing through a red light the biker drags the officer nearly 300-feet. >> i probably was drug behind the motorcycle 4 to 5 seconds. during that moment, i was scared. >> hanging onto the outlaw biker, he must make a split second decision to save his life. >> a thousand thoughts go through your life, do i let go at 40 miles an hour or 100 miles down the road? >> in that second, he has

another thought. >> if i could have freed up my gun hand, i probably would have shot him. >> he doesn't. he is thrown off just as the bike re-enters the interstate. >> this guy was not going to stop, he would have killed me for a traffic ticket. i rolled around on the ground, my first thought is while, i can move. i stood up, i said, wow, there is no bones sticking out here, i can walk. >> now he fine himself in the midst of oncoming traffic in the center of an intersection. >> i went to get up. i saw the light turn green, people didn't want to miss the green light, they went through the intersection, no one offered help. >> dazed and disoriented, he dodges oncoming traffic. >> one lady parked next to my car, i can see her mouthing to me, are you all right? i'm all right. >> he returns to his patrol car and immediately pursues the biker and calls dispatch in

there i just got drug by a motorcycle at a high rate of speed north on i-95. >> in this leeven of work, you hear signs, people you work with. they didn't sound normal. >> deputy will far vel a half a mile away. you hear him calm for help. >> you hear in his voice, that tired sound. >> white motorcycle, black leather jacket. hispanic rider. some kind of a tat of a logo on the back. >> it sets off a county wide manhunt, mobilizing officer, patrol cars, even helicopters. meanwhile, the gophers lost sight of the biker and tul pulls over to the side of the road. i may have video of the tag. i don't know, keep an eye out for this guy, i'm going to check my video. >> it's not until now that severe pain sets in. i'm skinned up a little bit. my uniform's ripped.

>> the pane was pretty intense. my scrapes were pretty dig and deep. i didn't even feel pain until ten minutes later when things started burning. >> i didn't know how bad it was until i got there. >> when he reaches the officer the dragged deputy isn't in good shape. >> as i'm approaching him, he's out of the car, he's very excited. i want for the make sure he's okay first. >> i'm all right. i'm all right. >> sit down. >> he refuses ems. instead, he insists they watch the dash-cam video looking for any identifying information. >> when i first saw the video of the deputy getting dragged, i have the same feeling i have now, it's goose bumps. you watch him fall off the bike. he rolls around. he's telling me he doesn't want to go to the hospital. you are going to the hospital. that's pure toughness. >> the deputies can't see the license plate. he tacked it under the seat. but his earlier dispatch vooeld

yields a lead. the bike is spotted in a monita strip mall parking lot. only a mile away from the scene of the crime. >> the motorcycle was parked if front of a barber shop. >> a sergeant from the boynton beach police department is working in a monita mall. he knows this barber shop very well. >> i, of course, recognize it only because i get my haircut done there. when i heard it was there i knew who owned the motorcycle. in the shop, there is one person that drives a bicycle. that's mr. morales. >> he was a barber. he was late for work. he was on his way to the barber shop at the time this all happened. >> the logo emblazoned on the back of the act is the 0 to 60 motorcycle club. >> god forbid. if he would have gotten killed, he would have gone to jail forever a speeding tick.

he is charged with aggravated battery on a police officer, fleeing, eluding, resisting arest with violence. he also gets a speeding ticket. >> i think he would have rather killed me than to get a couple of traffic ticket, i really do. >> he is taken to bethesda hospital, treated for injuries, including road rash. while most of the physical wounds have healed, the emotional wounds are still raw. >> from the second i got back up, i was probably as mad as i have ever been. i'm still mad. >> within a week the dep city back in his charger patrolling his regular beat. >> if i had to do the same thing over again this afternoon with the same results, i'd do it again. i like the adrenaline rush. if that guy is going by me at 112, just the looking at me saying come and get me, well, i'm coming to get you. >> coming up, a vicious attack in a prison holding cell. >> they were going to be administering their own form of

jail justice. >> when "caught on camera, inmates and outlaws" continues. .

>> in a phoenix, arizona jail, four strangers banned together to brutally till a man. >> theyped to leave me for dead. >> it housed about 120,000 inmates a year at the maricopa jail. it's one of the most violent and controversial. june 7th, 2006. violence erupts in a crowded holding cell. >> this is the entry point for every inmate other than a few small jails for some small communities. >> the chief of detention, jack mcintyre oversees the holding cell. >> we are looking at the people who have an array of various felony charges, could be burglary, a carjacking, car theft, stealing 12 packs of beer from your local circle k. >> after your arrest, suspects wait in the small cell for hours. too many prisoners, not enough space is a common scenario.

on this day, there are more than two dozen sand wined in together, including rick hermann. >> rick hermann was arrested for a number of charges by the phoenix police department. >> the 35-year-old receives a car that lists his charges, then his clothes are taken away. >> the phoenix police department took them into evidence and issued him what we call a bunny suit, a white paper jumpsuit and booked him in that apparel. he keeps to himself, a few show interest in him asking to see the card that lists his charges. rick hermann doesn't know the when that interrogate him. >> there's nothing that would indicate any of these individuals knew each other, had any history with each other. had seen each other before this particular date. >> with thousands of inmates to upon tore, it can be at least five or ten minutes before guards pass this tank again. though there is a camera inside

the cell the video is not watched in real time. after the garsd leave, a few of the inmates move to the window, blocking the view from outside. a minute later, riviera, in full view of the camera, takes off his shirt and attacked hermann. >> one of these guys felt wearing the suit manet that mr. hermann had child molester charges. >> hermann is no santa. he's in there on a kidnapping charge. he's not a child molester, which even hardened felons consider reprehensible. with the accuracy of an experienced boxer, hermann lands 13 punches and finishes him off with a know to the chest, then goes back to finish his juke box. hermann spends the next 20 minutes washing his wounds, be every the next inmate unleashes a bizarre of blows to his dheft. >> it's bizarre and there is

nothing in his booking card about wild i child who leftation. >> morris comes back with a vicious kick to the head, followed by heavy swings and a fourth inmate hermann reyes enters the melee. rick hermann is terrified. >> i didn't know if i was going to live or die. it was apoint inning to get over with. i didn't think i was going to live through it. >> the pummelling lasts 30 minutes. at no point does he call for help for fear of being labeled a snitch or a tattle tale, none of the other witnesses does anything to help either. >> what they should have done is bang on the door to alert the attention staff. if the door was opened the assault was over, the vast majority of them said they were asleep or saw nothing or they know nothing. >> it takes more than an hour from the time the first punch is thrown until officers finally enter the tank and discover hermann blood soaked and severely beaten. hermann is put on the stretcher

and carted down to the jail's medical facility. >> in the back of my head, stitchs over both my eyes. a shattered jaw. my whole right side of my face all swollen up. i think there was bruises for me and kicked. >> hermann spends a month in the infirmry. he is unable to speak, stand, has trouble breathing. can only take in liquids through a straw. meanwhile, jail officials review the tape and discovered who is involved. >> we had a wiry black person in the cell. we had a large hispanic man. we had a white male with blond dreadlocks. it's not difficult to pick these people out. >> the sheriff says this type of attack can't always be prevented. >> how are you going to stop someone from whacking someone? i'd have to lock him up. you can't control it.

>> in the end, all four plead guilty to the assault, receiving sentences from two to 24 hour years. >> this is an isolated situation. it happened. just tis was done. they're going to pay. >> after recuperating, hermann is convicted of kidnapping and aggravated assault the original charges he was in the tank for. he is sentenced to five years in prison and released after three. >> i don't think they were trying to kill him. i think they were trying to act out some preconceived lig game that they had, that they were going to be administering their own form of jail justice. >> coming up, mayhem in a massive prison riot. >> i had a 180-degree vision of the yard and it was a war zone. >> when caught on camera, inmates and outlaws continues. but our plants were starving. [ man ] we love to eat. we just didn't know that our plants did, too.

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extraordinary is the rifles didn't stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000. cress sent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the country's highest security correctional facilities. a supermax prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. a retired leiutenant from pelican bay was a watch commander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes, murder, strong-armed robbery, rain. >> within the 275-aker penitentiary is the security housing unit known as the shoe, a prison within a prison. shoe inmates spend about 22 hours of every day in solitary confinement, locked up in an 8 x 10 windowless cement cell with

little human contact. inside the shoe are about 1,000 level 4 prisoners, what boil calls the worst of the worst, inmates other wardens don't want or can't handle. dangerous gangs found in the penal community. >> because of their leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people to commit these kind of crimes. >> on that day two, alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into the yard for exercise. boyle says the entire police isn't on edge, dating back to a smaller, racially-charged riot six months earlier between two gangs the southern hispanics and the black gorilla family. >> you could feel the tension. staff were alert. as it went on, the tension went more and more pronounced. >> the pent-up tension finally

erupts. >> now just like that, somebody gives somebody a queue and it's people chasing other people with fievs. >> a full scale attacks. the hispanics ambush the gorilla families. within seconds the yard becomes a war zone. >> there was a lot of confusion and chaos. the level of violence on this one yard at that one day, one moment was as large as i had ever seen in my life. >> the nursing director is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas cannister. >> i looked up. i saw the smoke and i heard a crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. >> dr. effort allen, the surgeon at pelican bay watches the mayhem unfold, just steps away from his clinic. >> you see these little cub patsys, you see smoke all over

the yard, you know this is a pretty massive event. >> the sheer number of people involved is overwhelming 200 inmates, 100 officers. >> it was well choreographed. it was extremely well kooex executed. the hispanics outnumbered the blacks 2-1. they knew exactly what time they were going to do this. they had their targets picked out. >> you can see them working in pairs. it was teamwork. they set up perimeterers, deat all time teams. >> the senior district attorney assigned says the inmates spent months preparing, making weapons in their cells. >> some inmates camped knives out of metal on the lower parts of the bunks or other metal in the cell. >> before being released into the yard, inmates are searched hundreds of times. how that do they hide them? >> one is in an anal cavity. >> once out in the yard, that i

are able to transfer them from their hiding place and conceal them under their bulky rain coats. >> almost all are large, shockingly large. >> gunners fire rifle and tear gas in an attempt to halt the fighting. >> when you hear the crack, it deafens you, you know it is lethal force being used. >> normally, inmates hit the ground and stay there when shots are fired. >> it didn't matter, the inmates would get down and get back up again and narrator each others with fiefbs. they were determined as determined as anybody you have ever seen. >> it was really difficult to get them to lay down and stop. >> just 20-feet from the watch tower the inmate miguel sanchez repeatedly establishes another inmate. he defiantly looks up at the officer and has a rifle on him. sanchez doesn't stop. >> he was hit in the back of the skull, he went down and

immediately bled out his entire blood volume in about 15 seconds. i've seen a lot of trauma in my bay days, but i never seen anybody bleed out that fast every before? >> the two warring factions fight over the body t. gangs are so determined that even a brutal death of one of their own inches away doesn't stop them. medics finally dragged the body out to the clinic to dr. alan. >> he's not moving. he had his pasty dusty look about him. he had, when i grabbed his head the back of his head was bleeding. >> after an intense and bloody po minutes, heavy reenforcements flood the yard to bring the riot uncontrol. remarkably, sanchez is the only fatality, overall, the wounds are dope and widespread with nearly 300-reported injury sfwls i don't know how you quantitate violence, for me, that was the most i had ever seen at one time in any place.

>> in the end, the district attorney convicts the leader of the southern hispanics, jose luis sanchez, a riot, voluntary manslaughter and attempted murder in the death of miguel sanchez, a member of his own gang. after this, the second incident if six months, pelican bay is put on lockdown and remains that way for years to come. no more than a few dozen prisoners are allowed in the yard at any one time. >> that day, i believe that group of inmates had a moist and it was to teach the other group that they run the yardened they will not allow anybody else to disrespect them, like what happened six months before. >> when you go into a prison, you have one thing that is not taken from you, your dig, your respect. you have to stand up for yourself or you will become a greater victim. >> the raf and yard is cleaned up. the psychological carnage haunts those that were there.

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be killed. >> in arizona, 70 miles north of the u.s.-mexico border, inition to combatting local crimes, the sheriff face a growing and deadly threat. >> cocaine, black tar heroin and methamphetamine, very dangerous drugs. me and my deputies and all the local officers are on the front lean of this drug war there on april zen 17th, 2011, he says the rip him effects of that drug war find their way to the front steps of his jail. 26-year-old aal hand ro guerrero is about to be released. he has been in and out of arizona correctional facilities for about four years. >> alejandro guerrero is a violent offender. this is a guy who has been convicted offing a dpra rate issed assault. who has been dealing with domestic violence and serious

other felonies. >> now, he is fre to go. he just needs to fill out some paperwork. >> this is an occasion that any prisoner, it's like tear high five moment. hey, i'm about to have my freedom again. >> he might not want to leave the jail. why? a worse fate could leave him on the outside. >> he said there was a hit on him, meaning he was going to get hit if he went out these doors. >> he later tells police the cartel sees him as a snitch for leaking information to law enforcement. the sheriff says to understand guerrero's fear, you'd have to understand the brutality of the mexican drug cartels. >> they're very proud of their violence and the fact that they tore cure people, they kill people, they behead them. >> the chief deputy runs the jail. >> he felt that his life was in jeopardy as that cartel from mexico identified him in his own words as an informant.

is it true? i don't know. there is a true sense of fear. >> none of that is san antonio when without warning, guerrero attacks the officer, he will later say he feels disrespected by the officer. >> you see guerrero lunge forward, start to strike immediately officers salazar in the face. knocks him to the ground. continues in the attack, starts as to punch him further, striking him in the face, breaks his nodes, cuts his face. >> he pummels salazar with a closed fist and kicks him in the gut. >> the officer had no clue or understanding that he was about to be brutally attacked. >> help rushes in. >> when the first officer responded, guerrero also struck him in the forehead, knocking him backwards. >> meanwhile, officer salazar staggers away to get medical help. >> there was quite a bit of blood on the floor that mr. salazar had lost that day.

>> he suffers a broken nodes, cuts to the mouth and lips. a laceration above the eye and a head injury that bleeds profusely. >> you into ed to secure the area and restrain this person who continued to be combative. >> o after two intense minutes, guerrero finally gives up. >> he says, i'm not resisting, i'm not resisting, please don't tais me. >> he is subdued and taken back to the same holding cell, a few months after the incident the officer returns to work. >> violence is always present here. you are dealing with the human psyche. you never know what makes a person function or tick. >> alejandra guerrero is sentenced to six years if prison for aggravated assault. that day, he gets his wish. he goes back to jail. in ohio, two women fight to get out of jail. female inmates in a shocking jail brake.

>> i thought it was some kind of movie. i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> by holding onto the bottom of a moving bus. >> only a stunned person would be able to try something like this. >> july 11, 2005, downtown columbus ohio t. franklin county courthouse. dozens of dangerous prisoners a day are transported from county jails to the courthouse and back in a re-enforced sheriff's bus. the bus sits in a locked and gated secure sally port. it is monitored by under surveillance cameras and is equipped with steel doors on the windows. amy morris was a homicide detective with the columbus police department. >> i never heard of anybody escaping from the franklin county jail before. >> but that doesn't stop two inmate from the trying. that day, tracy mobley is darnled with multiple counts of burglary, theft, possession of drugs and receiving stolen property. marianne morrissy is charged

with a few traffic violations, strangered shackled together. they are led towards the bus in the loading area. >> when the line of prisoners was getting on the bus, tracy and mary were the last two prisoners of a long lean of prisoners. >> and that's when they make their move. >> because it's sitting fairly low to the ground, you have been have to be pretty sma ul to crawl under this bus and maneuver yourself around while are you hanging on that frame. >> watch closely, initially, they were not last in line, mobley waits for the perfect moment to switch positions. >> tracy mobley was the ring leader in this. there was no doubt, she was the one that came up with the idea. because she had the felony hanging over her head. mary morrissy was here for misdemeanor traffic things which she probably would have gotten a fine. >> after their disappearing a, a full five seconds tick by before

a sheriffs deputy appears in the loading area. he doesn't seem to know anything is amiss. >> doesn't somebody watch the video while the prisoners are going onto the bus? don't they do a beginning count when they start to go out? don't they do an ending count on the bus, then they would have known they were short two prisoners. >> oblivious two prisoners are underneath the bus instead of inside it. it pulls out on the street. officer morris happens to be standing steps away. he was pulling out exactly the way he is now with prisoners aboard and pulled out and probably made it just about right there. >> incredibly the prisoners cling to the underside of the bus for a full five minutes, mere inches off the ground. as the bus stops, they lose their grip, fall, hitting the ground hard. am some point their handcuffs come undone. >> tracy mobley immediately got

up, took off rung southbound. >> morris asks an officer to help and runs after mobley. meanwhile, terry meyer, a local private detective just happens to be driving behind the bus when it stops at the light. >> they pulled out on the street right here in the 92nd e second middle lane, i was right behind them, that's where the two prisoners escaped. >> shell shocked, morrissy doesn't know where to go. shematics a half hearted attempt to ride right in front of the sheriff's station, realizes that's a bad add, wandered back past the jail, slowly. meyer leaves his car running in the middle of the street and pursues marianne morsy. >> i thought they were filming a minnesota i didn't want to spoil the scene. then i realized it was a real escape attempt. he catches up with her down the block, cuffs her. within seconds, meyer walks the defeated captive back to the courthouse, but nobody at the

sheriff's office seems to notice, they're missing prisoners. >> they were surprised. i said, you want your prisoner back? they looked at me, they didn't know there had been aattempt to escape. >> at the same time, officer morris the edge of the freeway where she's hiding in the bushes. >> i'm not sure what she was trying to do because from this point on there's nowhere to go. >> it takes 15 minutes for sheriff's deputies to show up to reclaim their prisoner whose back is broken from the failed escape. for his efforts terry myer receives a sheriff's valor award. while morris gets a thrill from the chase. >> i had been a homicide detective for about 15 years and i had not had to chase anybody for at least ten years. this was almost like being a young officer again. >> tracy mobley is sentenced to four years in prison for her audacious escape attempt and her original charges.

mary ann morrissey gets three years probation for the escape attempt. >> tracy was trying to be escaped. i think mary just happened to be there shackled to the wrong person. coming up, prisoners on the run in the streets of denmark. >> we didn't expect anything to happen like this. >> when "caught on camera: inmates and outlaws" continues. does your dog food have? 30? 20? new purina one beyond has 9. the simplified purina one beyond. learn more about these wholesome ingredients at purinaone.com

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in denmark, a bulldozer plows into a maximum security prison crushing the wall into a cloud of dust. >> it was a tremendous day for the danish prison. nobody has ever seen anything like that before. >> 12 inmates escape in a spectacular prison break. in this sleepy suburb 20 miles outside copenhagen is one of denmark's top maximum security prisons.

>> the prison is from 1859 and some of the walls are even that old. the wall is just built out of bricks and concrete, like any dane's house would be built. >> the 19th century prison houses hundreds of denmark's most dangerous criminals. >> we have terrorists. we have murderers. we have gang members. we have drop crimes. >> prisons in denmark are not at all like their american counterparts. here they focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment. >> if you go into a prison wing in any danish prison, i would say you wouldn't feel it more different than if you were in a danish school. >> still, nothing can take the place of freedom no matter how comfortable the cell. and so on august 27, 1995, 12 prisoners try to regain their

freedom in a remarkable escape attempt. maurel peterson on duty that day said there were having their annual end of summer together. >> the attitudes among the inmates that day were extremely well. >> the barbecue winds down and prisoners file back into their cells. a prisoner serving three and a half years for armed robbery is in the yard. the self-proclaimed escape king has busted out of various danish prisons 20 times in his 19 years of incarceration and has been caught each time. despite being 0 for 20, larson rarely misses an opportunity to run. on that day, he suddenly hears a crash.

>> guards think it's a bomb. but the explosion is actually the sound of a 25-ton bulldozer ramming into the prison wall reducing it to rubble. >> when the wall crushed i say freedom, freedom, freedom. i run as i could. >> larsen and a herd of other inmates go through the gaping hole spilling out of the prison like air from a punctured balloon. kyle herman has never seen anything as strange as this. >> when i got here, it was total chaos. all the officers were outside running around searching for the inmates. >> a nationwide man hunt begins for the escaped inmates, five murderers, four bank robbers, and three drug smugglers. >> definitely not people that we

would like to be on the outside in a society like this. >> detective herman says that the escape was well planned. a former inmate on the outside steals a bulldozer and talks to inmates on the inside with a cell phone tossed over the phone. larsen runs to his girlfriend's house in copenhagen. >> i was tired. after 20 kilometers. but you can feel you get your freedom. you don't really feel it. you don't stop for nothing. >> after an intense investigation and national media blitz, all 12 inmates are captured within a month of the wall coming down. larsen is captured after six days and given two weeks in isolation. security is tightened including more surveillance cameras and the construction of a new outer wall. as for the original wall, it takes more than six months to rebuild it.

>> we had a thing here a few years ago. don't lean against the wall. it might collapse. it should be quite solid now. >> one question, however, still stands. the camera man who shot the spectacular escape. why was he there? was he just very lucky in the right place at the right time? or was he somehow involved in the prison break? rumors still swirl. the cameraman kim faulk says he was simply there by chance awaiting a political rally. after the incident he's questioned by police and released. >> when you go inside a small room you will try anything to get out. there was at least one institution the escape king brian larsen didn't run from. the institution of marriage. in october 1995, about a month after the bulldozer incident, he married his girlfriend in the prison church. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera."

msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup :raw." to their victims, they were the epitome of terror. >> i throw my hooks and snapped his neck. you can feel it right against here. pop. >> the face of their nightmares. >> he was crying, begging for me to stop. >> started sawing away, tried to cut his head off. >> they have robbed, murdered, and kidnapped.