Six Men Escape From High-Security Prison
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Six convicts, including three murderers, escaped from a maximum-security prison in St. Clair Springs by using a broom handle to slip under an electric fence.
Officers set up roadblocks and went house to house with tracking dogs in a search for the men. Three of them were serving life sentences without parole, and a fourth had broken out of the prison before.
The men escaped from the St. Clair Correctional Facility after dark. They got past three fences: a 12-foot chain-link fence topped with razor wire, an electrified fence and another razor-topped fence, a prison spokesman said.
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