… In 1999, two felons climbed over a 15-foot, razor wire-topped fence at the maximum-security Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup and were picked up by a former prison psychologist who had visited one of the inmates 58 times and devised an elaborate plan to help the men get free.
•In 1993, Dontay Carter, serving two consecutive life terms plus 190 years for murder, jumped out a second-floor courthouse window and managed to elude a manhunt for 28 hours before being caught. He had been on trial for abducting and trying to kill a Johns Hopkins doctor, having already been convicted of killing a computer engineer and kidnapping a jeweler.
•A woman who in a haze of LSD shot and killed the doorman of a Waverly nightclub who wouldn’t let her in escaped from a prison in Jessup in 1979 by climbing down from a window using a rope of bedsheets. She was captured 20 years later in Florida, having transformed from a drug-abusing prostitute on The Block to a life as a herbal healer and organic coffee farmer.

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