Maze Prison escape the prison walls using knotted sheets. A guard was shot and wounded during the escape, and the prisoners were captured after being chased across fields by guards and the police. In March 1997 a tunnel was discovered in H7 at the Maze Prison. The tunnel was fitted with electric lights, and was from the outside wall, having already breached the block's perimeter wall. On 10 December 1997 IRA prisoner Liam Averill, serving a life sentence after being convicted of the murder of two Protestants, escaped from the Maze dressed as a woman. Averill mingled with a group of prisoners' families
Apodaca prison riot of the massacre. In addition, two prisoners who were pronounced as fugitives on 19 February 2012 never escaped from the prison. The Attorney General's Office Nuevo León asserted that the new figures are definitive. The Mexican authorities offer up to $12.4 million pesos for information leading to the fugitives arrests. The governor of Nuevo León mentioned that 30 inmates, reportedly from the criminal group Los Zetas, escaped from the prison with the "complicity of the prison authorities," and that 18 prison guards were being investigated on 20 February 2012. Nine of them confessed to have helped the prisoners escape, but