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A group of prisoners dubbed the Texas Seven escaped from the John B. Connally Unit on 13 December 2000. An elaborate scheme devised by the group led to the group overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers, and three uninvolved inmates. Once overpowered, clothing, credit cards, and ID were taken from the victims and used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison. Four of the offenders stayed behind to make phone calls to the prison tower guards to distract them. The rest raided the guard tower and stole numerous weapons and then stole a prison maintenance pick-up truck in which all seven drove away from the prison. They were apprehended just over a month after. Six of the seven were placed on Texas’ Death Row while the seventh (Larry James Harper) committed suicide rather than return to prison.
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A group of prisoners dubbed the Texas Seven escaped from the John B. Connally Unit on 13 December 2000. An elaborate scheme devised by the group led to the group overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers, and three uninvolved inmates. Once overpowered, clothing, credit cards, and ID were taken from the victims and used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison. Four of the offenders stayed behind to make phone calls to the prison tower guards to distract them. The rest raided the guard tower and stole numerous weapons and then stole a prison maintenance pick-up truck in which all seven drove away from the prison. They were apprehended just over a month after. Six of the seven were placed on Texas’ Death Row while the seventh (Larry James Harper) committed suicide rather than return to prison.