According to police, Burham, a Pennsylvania resident, escaped by tying bed sheets together as a rope, rappelling off the roof of the jail in downtown Warren, roughly 50 miles southeast of Erie ...

A murder suspect escaped from the county jail in downtown Oklahoma City early Friday by using bed sheets tied together to climb down the outside of the building -- from a 12th floor cell.

A New York homicide suspect escaped a Pennsylvania jail using bed sheets and is on the run, police say. Getty Images/iStockphoto UPDATE: Police found multiple campsites possibly used by escaped ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Two inmates at a Louisville, Kentucky, jail could have used a course in knot-tying when authorities say they plotted an escape using bed sheets. Officials say the men escaped ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A 29-year-old Leavenworth, Kansas man was sentenced this week for attempting to use a bed sheet to choke an officer at the Leavenworth County Jail.

This jailbird was simply sheet outta luck. Authorities nabbed two inmates at a Washington state jail Thursday before they could scale five floors to freedom — with the help of a rope made of … ...

PORTSMOUTH A 25-year-old man found dead in his cell at Hampton Road Regional Jail a week ago had a sheet tied around his neck, a jail official said in an email Friday. The other end of the sheet wa… ...