I’ve been in prison for 15 years and my family h
s stopped visiting me. My Mother never got over me being sent to prison and my Father was just disappointed in me.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel, the word is that there is going to be a jailbreak and I want to get in on it.
The ringleader of the escape was Jerry the ‘Jackhammer’. He was a bank robber who liked to do things the old fashioned way, with brute force. He had in listed the help of Freddie Prince, he is a computer whiz and use to hack in to F.B.I. files. Gary, he could use any piece of machinery you put in front of him, and hopefully me, I can hotwire and drive most vehicles. I had noticed the jackhammer was in the prison gym most of his free time so approached him while he was doing some chin ups. “So you see Mr ‘Jackhammer’ I am able to drive any car, I could be the get away driver” I said nervously.
He looked me up and down, then whispered “Can you use a gun son?”
I had never seen a gun in my life let alone fire one, I thought for a moment and then said “yeah, plenty of times ”
The Jackhammer lent over and went to shake my hand, he said “all you need is on the paper”
I opened my hand to find a piece of paper with an escape plan on it.
I waited until I got back to my cell to unfold the paper fully, it had an intricate plan of escaping. The plan was to undo our handcuffs while we ate breakfast in the main hall, and run towards the kitchen were there was a large air vent. We would crawl through the vent and using a plan of the ventilation system crawl our way to the prison garage, were I would hot-wire a vehicle and drive through the two main gates to freedom. Then I would drive to a rendezvous point where would meet a friend of the ‘Jackhammer’s’ and he would smuggle us out of the country. But everything didn’t go according to plan.
We all sat in silence round the table at breakfast, you could tell everyone was anxious. Freddie was sweating buckets and Gary couldn’t sit still, the jackhammer was just seating in his seat with a face of stone. We were all looking at the ‘Jackhammer’ waiting for him to give us the signal to unlock our handcuffs, he coughed twice, that was the signal. We started to unlock our handcuffs as inconspicuously as possible, I saw a guard starting to walk over to us, I nodded to the guard and he just walked straight past. The hammer broke our silence by whispering “on the count of three we make a run for the kitchen, one, two.....three”
We all dashed for the kitchen, I could hear behind me guards bellowing “Hold it!”
But I didn’t care I just ran fast as could, then I heard a gun shot from behind me. I turned to see Gary had been shot, he had been shot through the chest and blood had splattered on several inmates. I tried to turn and run but my legs wouldn’t move they were like jelly, I looked up to see another guard lifting his gun up. Suddenly I was pulled though the kitchen door, the bullet from the gun hit the door. I looked round and saw Freddie holding on to my arm. “What were you doing?! You could have got yourself killed, we need you to drive the get away car.”
“Thanks for caring Gary”
“Shut up you two!”
I turned round to see the ‘Jackhammer’ blocking the door with a dishwasher, I could hear the guards outside shouting for a ram. Then remembered about Gary “what about Gary?”
“Forget about him” interrupts the Jackhammer
He had pulled the mesh panel off the air vent and had started crawling through the vent followed closely by Freddie. I then I heard a huge bang at the door, the guards were using a ram to knock down the door, so thought it was good idea to follow Freddie through the vent.
We had been crawling in complete darkness for about thirty minutes and you could hear guards down below running about looking for us. We came to the end of the ventilation shaft and ‘Jackhammer’ kicked the mesh guard off the end, and jumped down. I then hear a gun shot, Freddie turned to me and jumped down, I then heard Freddie questioning the ‘Jackhammer’ “what have you done!” I immediately jumped down to see the ‘Jackhammer’ and Freddie standing over a prison guard in a puddle of blood.
“Right get into this car”
I looked up to see the ‘Jackhammer’ pointing to an armoured van. I stepped into the blood as I stepped over the dead body, I left crimson footprint behind me. I grabbed a crowbar and wedged it into the crevice of the door and prised the door open, we all got into the van and I started the engine.
The rev of the engine attracted some attention out side the garage door, the Jackhammer. Said “go” so I drove right at the door there were about three guards who had to jump out of the way of our van. The main gates out of the prison were directly in front of us, I remembered the plan. I revved up the engine and accelerated as quickly as possible, the tyres screeched as I set off. We were going about seventy when we hit the first gate, the windscreen cracked and I lost both wind mirrors. We hit the second gate before we had time to recover from the first, it totally smashed the windscreen and I got a cut on my face as the glass flew the van.
We all cheered as we pulled away from the prison, but our joy was short lived as several police cars came out of mist. I could see their lights penetrating the fog. I was dodging in and out of the cars but I lost them, they started to fall back and I thought I’d lost them. But up ahead I saw a policeman crouching by the side of the road. He had a stinger in his hands, I tried to break but he through it in front of the van. The tyres were punctured ,I lost control of the van. I jerked the steering wheel to try to regain control of the van. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as we rolled over and over again. This time I wasn’t thrown out, we were all trapped in side as the van was upside down. The Jackhammer kicked open the door and ran in to the forest near by, Freddie was unconscious I called for the Jackhammer to help me to get him out, but there was no reply. I could hear the police sirens closing in on us. So I pulled him as hard as I could and dragged him out on to the road. I picked him up and put him over my shoulder and I started to run towards the forest. Before I could get in to the forest I heard a police car behind me screeched as it stopped, and a voice yelling, “Stop Him!”
Then a gun shot. I felt a sharp pain in my chest and another gunshot and more pain. I put my hand to my chest, it was covered in blood. I fell to my knees, then the last gunshot I fell to the floor and closed my eyes. Looking back on my life I hope my saving of Freddie’s life cancels out my killing of my friends.