a motorcyclest drivers a deputy across a highway. >> i thought i was going to die that day. >> a suspect attacks an officer behind a desk. >> an ex-con plows a hole through a maximum security prison wall. >> nobody has seen anything. >> caught on camera, audacious jail breaks. >> i can't imagine what they were thinking. >> savage beatings. >> they were going to be administering their own form of jail justice. >> and one of the most notorious prison riots in history. >> the thing that was so extraordinary about that day is the rifles didn't stop them.

>> caught on camera, enmates and outlaws. >> hello. i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." when dealing with dangerous people out on patrol or inside prison walls, members of law enforcement know they'll never let down their guard. the minute that happens, something terrible could unfold.

>> mr. thomas -- i could smell the fear in you. officers would repry with something like i'm not afraid of you. wit, a 17-year veteran of the p.d. doesn't think much of the comment. >> it's not uncommon for somebody that we're going to arrest to act tough and want to say things while they're in handcuffs. you take the hand cuffs off them look you would do in the booking area, they follow through. >> after removing the cuffs, officer wit moves behind the counter to finish booking the suspect. what happens next catches wit off forward. >> he jumped over the kousht right at officer wit. >> leaping nearly four feet in the air. thomas attacks officer wit. >> mr. thomas clearly resecures

his pants and moves back to get himself in position to go over-the-counter, so it's clearly thought about. it's not like it was just something that just happened. >> officer wit fendz off his assailant and slams hem on the floor. >> he pushes his hands forward to try to stop the attack, and there's a pretty intense struggle. sfroo there is absolutely no way i was going to encounter officer wit. just his size alone, his stature is intimidating. >> officer wit is probably the biggest officer we have on the department. he is aurnd 6'6", at least 300 pounds. >> he is trying to get him in a choke hold. officer wit is able to push away from that, and you see officer wit go to the phone, and is he going to try to call for help. scloo that phone is the officer's lifeline. thomas maneuvers behind him to

take control. >> he definitely did try to go for the gun. >> the gun is not in the holster. >> mr. thomas thought that officer wit still had his weapon. >> earlier that night wit brought thomas in through the station's secure sally port. >> prior to bringing him in 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, forcing wit to turn and defend himself. the violence escalates. >> it is an all-out fight. there were punches. there were elbows. there was a lot of wrestling going on. to me it looked like he was hit full force. >> officer wit isn't able to cal for help, but dislodging the receiver gets the attention of the dispatcher. >> dispatcher, tina thompson, saw officer wit on camera, and he was kind of humped over, and she thought he was having some sort of medical distress. she immediately got on the radio and said an officer needed help in the jail. >> meanwhile, thomas pours on

the pressure. he grabs the officer's neck and applies a stranglehold. >> i assured officer wit that it seemed like a lifetime because that's what it is. seconds seem like hours. you fight somebody straight for 30 seconds, it takes all your energy away. officer wit fought this guy for a minute and five seconds. straight. >> just when it seems like thomas might suffocate him, officer wit summons a reserve of strength. >> officer wit's hands are on thomas's neck. you can see thomas slowly starting to lose the fight. >> in a situation where a policeman or anybody is fighting for their life, deadly force is justified. >> after wit regains control, almost 30 seconds passed before backup finally arrives. the officer lets go, but thomas continues to struggle. >> once on the ground, 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 their shoulders. they were holding down his legs so he couldn't kick them.

finally they were able to get him handcuffed. >> he is finally subdued and cuffed and taken to lorraine county jail. >> mr. thomas came into the department on an attempt of court charge, which is a low grade merchandise. he left our department with a felony assaulting an officer charge. all that he was going to be released on a summons for the first one. >> thomas pleads guilty to assault and obstructing official business. he is convicted and sentenced to time served plus three years probation. thomas also has to undergo psychological evaluation and treatment. >> we react. it happens afterwards. that's when you think to yourself, wow, that could have been bad. >> a deputy gets taken for a ride across a busy highway. >> my life was flashing before my eyes. later choreographed chaos in a

prison yard. >> just like that somebody gives somebody a cue and people chasing other people with knives. >> when "caught on camera inmates and outlaws" continues.

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together, we're building a better california. a florida traffic stop turns terrifying when a reckless motorcycle rider guns it through a red light. dragging the deputy with him. >> my life was flashing before my eyes. >> it was so surreal. >> i just got drug by a motorcycle. high rate of speed. >> it's all caught on his dash cam. >> i thought i was going to die that day. >> west palm beach, florida. beautiful weather year-round and wide freeways. the sunshine state is a playground for renegade drivers. >> on a daily basis you see people out on 95 that are driving just crazy.

>> they have no sense of how fast they're going. >> at 62 years old, the veteran deputy thought he had seen it all. until the afternoon of march 29th, 2011. >> speed measuring device on 95 detecting speeders that normally get 20 miles an hour over the speed limit before i'll even look at you. >> musto is parked under an overpass when suddenly a motorcycle blows by. >> the speed limit at 65 miles an hour, he went by me in and out of traffic following too closely, improperly. >> musto shadows him for about five miles. up an off ramp to a red light. >> he never knew he was being followed. i parked about four feet. i got out of my vehicle just as quickly as i could. >> as he approaches the suspect, deputy musto senses something is going to happen. >> i could just see the way he

squinted his eyes and stared a hole right through me. i could see the hatred in his eyes. >> what happens next literally blows musto away. >> i saw him reach for the clutch on the motorcycle. i grabbed him in the area of his right shoulder blade. got a good grip. as soon as i grabbed him, and he hit it, and he 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 deputy for nearly 300 feet. >> i probably was drug behind the motorcycle for four to five seconds. it felt like an eternity. during that moment i was scared. >> hanging on to the outlaw biker, musto needs to make a split second decision to save his life. >> 1,000 thoughts go through your mind. do i let go at 40 americans now or let go at 140 miles an hour down the road? >> in that split second, musto has another thought. mroo if i could have freed up my left hand and just hung on with my right, which was impossible, i could have freed up my gun hand. i probably would have shot him. >> but he doesn't.

as the biker accelerates, musto 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, and my first thought was i'm not paralyzed. i request move. i stood up, and i said, wow, no bones sticking out anywhere here. i can walk. >> now musto finds himself in the midst of oncoming traffic in the center of an intersection. >> i went to get up, and i just saw the light turn green, and people didn't want to miss the green light, so they just went on through the intersection. no one ofrtd help. >> dazed and disoriented, musto dodges oncoming traffic. >> one lady that was parked next to my patrol car when this whole thing happened. i could see her mouthing to me, are you all right? >> i'm all right. >> he returns to his patrol car and immediately pursues the biker. he also radios dispatch.

>> deputy will ferrell is a half a mile away when he hears his friends call for help. >> you start hearing his voice. you start hearing that adrenaline, you know, tired sound. >> one motorcycle. black leather jacket. hispanic rider. some kind of logo on the back. >> musto's call sets off a county-wide manhunt for the suspect mobilizing officers, patrol cars, even helicopters. meanwhile, musto has lost sight of the biker and pulls over the side of the road. >> i may have video of the tag. i don't know. just 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 pants are ripped. i don't need an ambulance. >> the pain was pretty intense. my scrapes were pretty big and deep.

i didn't even feel pain until ten minutes later when things started burning. >> i didn't know how bad it was for deputy musto until i got there. >> when ferrell reaches musto, the dragged deputy isn't in good shape. >> as i'm approaching him, he is out of the car. he is very excited. i want to make sure he is okay first. >> sit down. >> i'm all right. >> i want you to make sure, though. sit down. >> musto refuses ems. instead, he insists they watch the dash cam video looking for any identifying information. bloo when i first saw the video of deputy musto getting dragged, i have the same feeling i have now, and it's goose bumps. >> watch him as he falls off the bike, and he rolls around, and he is telling me he doesn't want to go to the hospital. you're going to the hospital. i mean, that's pure toughness. >> the deputies can't see the license plate. the biker tucked the tag under the seat hidden from view. musto's earlier dispatch yields a lead. >> white motorcycle, black leather jacket. >> the bike is spotted in a nearby strip mall parking lot. only a mile away from the scene

of the crime. >> the motorcycle was parked in front of a barbershop. >> sergeant steven westendofsh of the boynton beach police department is working in a nearby mall when he hears the call. he knows this barbershop very well. >> i, of course, recognize it only because i get any haircut at the barbershop that it was found in front of. when i heard it was this barbershop, i knew who owned the motorcycle. in the barber shot there's only one guy that drives a motorcycle, and that's mr. morales. >> palm beach deputy ron cohen arrests victor morales. >> mr. morales is a barber, and he was late for work, and he was on his way to the barbershop at the time that this all happened. >> the logo emblazened on the back of his jacket is for the zero to 60 motorcycle club. >> god forbid deputy musto would have got killed that day. he would have been charged with manslaughter. he would have gone to jail for a very long time just over a speeding ticket. >> a jury finds morales guilty of resisting an officer without violence. he is found not guilty of fleeing and elude aing police

officer. he also gets a speeding ticket. >> i think he would have rather killed me than to get a couple of traffic tickets. i really do. >> deputy musto is taken to bethesda hospital and 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 deputy mike musto is 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 would do it again. i like the adrenaline rush. if that guy is going by me at 112 and just 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.

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brutally beat a man. >> kill me and leave me for dead. >> the maricopa county jail is one of the busiest in the country, house about 120,000 inmates a year. run by the wrout spoken sheriff joe arpajo, 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 very small jails for some small communities. >> chief of detention jack mcintire oversees the fourth avenue jail. >> generally in the holding tank we're looking at the people who have an array of felony charges. it could be burglary, car theft, stealing. >> on this day there are more than two dozen sandwiched in

together, including rick herman. >> rick herman was arrested for a number of charges by the phoenix police department. >> 35-year-old receives a card that lists his charges and then his clothes are taken away. >> the phoenix police department took them into evidence and issued him a bunny suit. it's a white jumpsuit. >> herman keeps to himself, but a few of the inmates in the standing room only crowd show interest in him asking to see the card that lists his charges. rick herman doesn't know any of the men who interrogate him. they are adrian rivera, jeremy quinnt and jason morris. >> there's nothing to indicate that any of these individuals knew each other, had any history with each other, had ever seen each other before this particular date. >> with thousands of inmates to monitor, 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 guards leave, a few of

the inmates move to the window blocking the view from outside. a minute later rivera in full view of the camera takes off his shirt and attacks herman. >> one of these guys thought that wearing the bunny suit meant that mr. herman had child molest charges. >> herman is no saint. he is in there on a kidnapping charge, but he is not a child molester, which even hardened felons consider rep rehencible. with the accuracy of an experienced boxer, rivera lands 13 punches on herman's face midsection. rivera finishes him off with a knee to the chest and then goes back to finish his juice box. herman spends the next 20 minutes washing his wounds before the second inmate, morris, unleashes a barrage of blows to his chest. >> it's bizarre conduct by the assailants because they actually looked at his booking card, and there's nothing in there about child molesting at all, and he was never charged with it. >> the assault continues. morris comes back with a vicious kick to the head followed by

some heavy swings by quinnt, and then a fourth inmate, herman reyes, enters the melee. rick herman is terrified. >> i didn't know if i was going to live or die. it was -- just get it over with. i didn't think i was going to live through it. >> the pummelling lasts for 30 minutes. at no point during that time does herman call for help for fear of being labelled a snitch or tattle tale. >> what they should have done is bang on the door to alert the detention staff to come running to the door to be opened, and the assault was over, but the vast majority of them either 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 herman, blood soaked and severely beaten.

>> stitches over both of my eyes, and then i got a shattered jaw and a hole right side of my face, all swollen up. bruises, being kicked. >> herman spends a month in the infirmry. he is unable to speak or stand, has trouble breathing, and can only take in liquids through a straw. meanwhile, jail officials review the surveillance tape and discover who is involved. >> we had a wiry black person in the cell. we had a white male who had blonde dreadlocks.

>> justice is done. they're going pay. >> after recuperating herman 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 mr. herman. i think they were trying to act out some preconceived little game that they had. they were going to be administering their own form of jail justice. >> coming up, mayhem in a massive prison riot. >> i had 180 degree vision of the yard, and it was a war zone. >> when "caught on camera, inmates and outlaws" continues. hey! have an awesome vacation everyone!

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lurking off the coast of the carolinas. tourists in yellowstone national park got a little too close to the wildlife. a black bear sent onlookers skurying after they crowded her three cubs in a section of montana park. nobody was hurt. they got a great view. now back to "caught on camera." welcome back to "caught on camera. "i'm contessa brewer. it was one of the most infamous prison riots in california's history. a pelican bay state prison 200 maximum security inmates erupted in violence in the prison yard and for a tense 30 minutes officers struggled to contain the chaos. >> i had 180 degree vision of the yard, and it was a war zone. >> terror in a california prison as gang members unleash a blood thirsty attack. >> the thing that was so extraordinary is the rifles

didn't stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000. crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison. one of the country's highest security correctional facilities. a super max prison. housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. >> tenia 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, strongarm robbery, rape. >> within the 275 acre peninc eh are y. it's 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 four prisoners.

what boil calls the worst of the worst. inmates that other wardens don't want or can't handle. dangerous gangs founded within the penal community. >> because of their gang leadership, they have the authority to authorize other people in the community or the prison to commit these kinds of crimes. >> and on that day two alleged gangs go to war. it's sunday, and it's raining. 200 shoe prisoners are released into b yard for exercise. boyle says that the entire prison is 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 particularly alert. as it went on, the tension got more and more, more and more pronounced. >> the pent-up tension finally erupts.

>> just like that somebody gives somebody a cue, and it's people chasing other people with knives. >> a full scale attack. the southern hispanics ambush the black gorilla family. within seconds b 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, that one moment was as large as i had ever seen in my life. >> nursing director jim anderson is at the shoe gate when he hears the explosion of a tear gas canister zoosh i looked up, and i saw the white smoke bill lowing out of b yard, and then i heard a crack of a mini 14, which is like an assault rifle. >> dr. everett allen, the surgeon at bell can bay watches the mayhem unfold just steps away from his clinic. >> you see these little combat scenes going on all over the yard as far as you can see. you see smoke over the yard, and you know that this is a pretty massive event. >> the sheer number of people

involved in the riot is overwhelming. 200 inmates. 1 had been officers. >> it was well choreographed. it was extremely well executed. the hispanics outnumber the blacks two to one. they knew exactly what time they were going to do this. they had their targets already picked out. >> you could see inmates working in pairs. it was teamwork. they set up little defensive prim meters. they set up assault teams. >> james, the senior deputy district attorney, assigned to pelican bay, says the inmates spent months preparing by making weapons in their cells. >> some inmates carve out knives out of metal on the lower parts of their bunks or other metal in the cell. >> before being released into the yard, inmates are strip-searched multiple times, so how do they smuggle out weapons? >> the only effective place to hide those are in one's anal cavity, and that's a dangerous thing to do with a sharp instrument. sfroo once out in the yard inmates are able to transfer the weapons from their hiding place and conceal them under their

bulky prison issue raincoats. >> almost all are sharp. some very large. shockingly large. >> gunners fire rifles and tear gas in an attempt to halt the fighting. >> when you hear the crack and it deafens you, then you know that it's lethal force that's being used. >> normally inmates hit the ground and stay there when shots are fired. >> it didn't matter that day. the inmates would get down. then they would get back up again and start chasing each other with knives. they were determined. as determined as anybody you have ever seen. it was really difficult to get them all to lay down and stop. >> just 20 feet from the watch tower inmate miguel sanchez repeatedly stabs another inmate. he defindly looks up at the officer who has a rifle trained on him, but sanchez doesn't stop. >> he was shot. he was hit in the back of the skull, and when he went down, he immediately -- he immediately bled out his entire blood volume in about 15 seconds.

i have seen a lot of trauma in my days. i had never seen anybody bleed out that fast. ever before. >> the two warring factions fight over sanchez's body. the gangs are so determined that even a brutal death of one of their own inches away doesn't stop them. medics finally drag the body out to the clinic to dr. allen. >> he was not moving. he had a pasty, dusty look about him. i grabbed his head. it was -- the back of his head was bleeding. >> after an intense and bloody 30 minutes, heavy reinforcements flood the yard to bring the riot under control. remarkably, sanchez is the only fatality. over all, the wounds are deep and widespread. nearly 300 reported injuries. >> i don't know how you quantityfew violence. for me that was the most i had seen at any one time in one place. >> the leader of the southern

hispanics was convicted of riot, voluntary manslaughter, and attempted murder in the death of miguel sanchez, a member of his own gang. after this the second incident in 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 motive, and it was to teach the other group that they run the yard and they elizabeth 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 dignity. your respect. you have to stand up for yourself or you're going to become a greater victim. >> the ravaged yard is eventually cleaned up, but the psychological carnage still haunts those that were there. >> people walking around really depressed because they were still looking, smelling, seeing

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killed if he went out the door. >> in arizona just 70 miles north of the u.s. mexico border. mad to combatting local crimes, its sheriff face a growing and deadly threat. >> cocaine, black tar heroin, and methamphetamine. very dangerous. me and my deputies and all the local officers are on the frontlines of this drug war. >> and on april 17th, 2011 he says the ripple effects of that drug war find their way to the front steps of his jail in florence. 26-year-old allejandro ferrero is about to be released after being arrested for an outstanding warrant. 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 of aggravated assault, who has been dealing with domestic violence and serious

other felonies. >> now guerrero is free to go. he just needs to fill out some paperwork. >> this is an occasion that any prisoner is -- it's like they're high-five moment. hey, i'm about to have my freedom again, right? >> guerrero might not want to leave the jail. why? a worse fate could await him on the outside. >> he said there was a hit upon him, meaning he was going to get killed if he got outside these doors. >> a hit by a mexican drug cartel known as loss zetas. guerrero later tells police the cartel sees him as a snitch for leaking information to law enforcement. sheriff babu says to understand guerrero's fear, he would have to understand the brutality of the mexican drug cartels. >> they're very proud of their violence and the fact that they torture people, that they kill people, that they behead them. >> chief deputy james kimball runs the county jail. >> he felt his life was in jeopardy. in his own words as an informant.

is it true? i don't know. there's a true sense of fear. >> none of that is known when without warning guerrero attacks officer roman salazar. he will later say he feels disrespected by the officer. >> you see guerrero lunge forward, start to strike immediately. officer salazar in the face, knocks him to the ground, and continues in the attack and starts to punch him further striking him in the face, breaks his nose, cuts his face. >> guerrero pummels salazar with a closed fist and kicks him in the gut. >> officer salazar clearly had no clue or understanding that he was about to be brutally attacked. >> while he wright on the floor, help rushes in. >> when the first officer responded, guerrero also struck mortonson in the forehead and knocked 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 suffered a broken nose,

cuts to the mouth and lips, a laceration above the eye, and a head injury that bleeds profusely. >> we needed secure the area and restrain this person who continued to be combative. >> after two intense minutes of what deputies call fight for life, guerrero finally gives up. >> he said i'm not resisting. i'm not resisting. please don't taze me. >> he is subdued, restrained with handcuffs and taken back into the same holding cell he came out of. a few months after the incident, officer salazar returns to work. >> violence is always present here. you're dealing with the human psyche. you never know what makes a person function or tick. >> alejandro guerrero is sentenced to six years in prison for aggravated assault. that day the sheriff believes guerrero gets his wish. he goes back to jail. >> in ohio two women fight to get out of jail. female inmates in a shocking jail break. >> i thought it was some kind of

movie. i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> by holding on to the bottom of a moving bus -- >> only a stunt person would be able to try something like this. >> july 11th, 2005. downtown columbus, ohio. the franklin county courthouse. dozens of dangerous prisoners a day are transported from county jails to the courthouse and back in a reinforced sheriff's bus. the bus sits in a locked and gated secure sally port. it's monitored by surveillance cameras, and it's equipped with steal bars on the doors and windows. amy morris was a homicide detective with the columbus police department. >> i've never heard of anybody escaping from the franklin county jail before. >> but that doesn't stop two inmates from trying. that day tracy mobley is charged with multiple counts of burglary, theft, possession of drugs, and receiving stolen property. mary ann morrissey on the other hand is charged with only a few

traffic violations. strangers shackled tow together by a pair of handcuffs, mobley and morrissey are led towards the bus and the loading wrar. >> when the line of prisoners was getting on the bus, tracy and mary were the last two prisoners of a long line of prisoners. >> and thautsdz when they make their move. >> they were sitting fairly low to the ground. you have to be pretty small to be able to crawl under this bus and then maneuver yourself around so that you are hanging on that train. >> but watch closely. initially they were not last in line. mobley waits for the perfect moment to switch positions. >> tracy mobley was the ringleader in this. there was no doubt she was the one who came up with the idea. she had the felony hanging over her head. mary morrissey was just here for misdemeanor traffic things, which she probably would have just gotten a fine. >> after their disappearing act, a full five seconds ticked by before a sheriff's deputy

appears in the loading area. when he doesn't seem to notice anything is amiss. >> doesn't somebody watch the video while the prisoners are going on to 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? they would have known they were short two prisoners. >> oblivious two prisoners are underneath the bus, instead of inside it, the bus pulls out to the street. officer morris just happens to be standing steps away. >> it was pulling out exactly the way he is now with prisoners aboard like he has right now, 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 at a red lights, they lose their grip and fall, hitting the ground hard. >> at some point their handcuffs come undone. >> tracy mobley immediately got up and then took off running southbound. >> morris asks a court officer

to call for help and runs after mobley, the one with the extensive rap sheet. meanwhile, terry myer, a local private detective, just happens to be driving behind the bus when it stops at the light. >> they pulled out on the street in the second middle lane, and i was right behind them in a small convertible. that's where the two prisoners escaped. >> shell shocked from the spill, morrissey doesn't know where to go. she makes a half-hearted attempt to hide right in front of the sheriff's station realizes that's a bad idea and waurndz back past the jail, slowly. meyer leaves his car running in the middle of the street and pursues mary ann morrissey. >> i thought they were moving somewhere. i was about to back up. i didn't want to spoil their scene. then i realized it was a real escape attempt. >> he catches up to morrissey, down the block, and cuffs her. within seconds of her escape, meyer walks the defeated captive back to the courthouse. nobody at the sheriff's office

seems to notice. they're missing prisoners. >> they were surprised. i said you guys want your prisoner back? they looked at me like they didn't know what was going on. they didn't know that there had been an attempt to escape. >> at the same time officer morris chases 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 an award. while morris gets a thrill from the chase. >> i had been a homicide detective for about ten years and i have not had to chase anybody for at least tern 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. if legalzoom has your back.s, over the last 10 years we've helped one million

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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 of bricks and concrete. like any danish 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 drug 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, 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 party. >> quite a bit of inmates, 120 to begin with. and they were extremely well. >> the barbecue winds down and prisoners file back into their cells. brian lawson, 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 really 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 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 walls. larson, the escape king, runs 12 miles to his girlfriend's house in copenhagen. >> when you get your freedom, 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 saying here a few years ago. don't lean against the wall. it could 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.

we're tracking severe weather at the top of the hour. we're at the weather center. >> yes, a very active radar. we're tracking right now tornado watches and the possibility of flash flooding that will exist through the evening. the watch is now for parts of colorado. they go into kansas. oklahoma, texas, and even into arkansas. that's where we're looking at some of the strongest storms right now. basically on the border of texas and oklahoma and now starting to push into arkansas. some of these cells are carrying 2 to 4 inches of rain with them. again, the threat of tornadoes is there and also the threat of flooding with an already