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Breakout is a television show that documents the escapes of prisoners. This show reveals to people how convicts escaped from prison, and the level of scheming it takes to escape a maximum security prison. The show documents well known prison escapes and interviews the people who figured out how to do it. The story is heard straight from the mouth of those who have escaped and learn about their ingenuity.

In one episode, convicts cut through the ceiling and use toothpaste to cover up the damage until their final escape. Viewers experience the intensity of when the guards search their cell. They will also learn how convicts use innocent bystanders.

The show reveals how inmates can escape from prison, but they can only run so far before they are hunted down and captured. These stories have been told with a little bit of dramatization added to them to help give them that added flavor. This television show shows how the human mind can come up with ingenious methods of escape when they are locked up in their cell with nothing else to do. One example of this ingenuity is how an inmate would count, in seconds, how long it would take for a guard to walk from one tower to the next.

This show tells the story of escape from both sides of the fence. Hearing the story both from the inmates who escaped from prison and hearing the story from law enforcement officials who were determined not to let them escape. The show shows the meticulous and many times, drawn out planning that occurs before a breakout. It also shows the level of risk undertaken during a breakout. In one episode, the inmates are shimmying down a building when one of the inmates falls and injures himself. Nonetheless, he is so determined that he keeps moving. These escapes are documented from some of America's most high security prisons. It shows the point from which inmates escape all the way to when inmates are eventually captured and brought to justice.