The Shawshank Comparisons

A prison escape straight out of the movies.

ShawshankRedemptionStillThe escape of two inmates from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, the first such incident in the facility’s 150-year history, has shocked state officials and fascinated fans of The Shawshank Redemption. That’s because minus the poster of Raquel Welch and the fact that the pair of real-life convicts are very much guilty of murder, the escape path eerily echos the painstaking methods of Tim Robbins’ character Andy Dufresne.

It’s an angle that pretty much every media outlet has tapped in the aftermath of Saturday morning’s discovery that David Sweat and Richard Matt were not in their cells.

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