Brixton Prison IRA escape 1991 be one of the masterminds behind the 1983 escape. (Marley was shot dead by loyalists in 1987.) On 10 June 1981, eight IRA members on remand, including Angelo Fusco, Paul Magee and Joe Doherty, escaped from Crumlin Road Jail. The prisoners took prison officers hostage using three handguns that had been smuggled into the prison, took their uniforms and shot their way out of the prison. On the 25 September 1983 38 Provisional IRA prisoners escaped from the HM Maze prison after taking control of their prison block and driving to freedom in a prison van. It was the biggest
Sarposa prison tunneling escape of 2011 on whether the escaped prisoners can be expected to join in larger-scale attacks. Political assassinations in the Kandahar area are reportedly down in the last year, but suspicions about government officials, and their inability to protect civilians, has remained high. In response to the escape, the Afghan Uniformed Police established a checkpoint directly across the highway from the prison, directly above the tunnel exit. The security around the prison was also greatly enhanced by coalition and Afghan forces. The head of the team investigating the escape, Mohammed Tahir, further cemented the likelihood that there was complicity from a number of