Officials say they foiled Death Row escape plot

<p>Georgia Department of Corrections officials say they foiled an escape plan by some death row inmates at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.</p><p>Corrections spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb provided few details of the alleged plot on Monday, saying only that authorities discovered it on Friday.</p><p>"At no time was inside or outside security threatened or breached," Lipscomb said.</p><p>She said prison officials received "some intelligence" that some of the 112 death row prisoners planned to escape, but she would not identify the inmates or how many were involved.</p><p>A search of cells uncovered evidence of the plan, Lipscomb said.</p><p>No inmate has escaped from death row at the Jackson prison.</p><p>In 1980, when death row was at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, four condemned inmates sawed through three sets of bars, climbed onto a fire escape and, dressed in homemade correctional officers' uniforms, fled in an automobile belonging to one of their family members.</p><p>Three were caught in North Carolina after two days. The fourth was beaten to death in a bar dispute over a woman.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x28667e4)</p>

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