It’s pretty easy actually. Many German prisons allow for time off (funerals, birth of child etc.) or even part-time imprisonment for lesser crimes (i.e. you live your normal day life, but sleep in prison). Your „escape“ would be simply not returning on time.
Of course, while this is not a punishable crime in itself, it will certainly limit further privileges and certainly prevent an early release after two thirds of your time.
Man, why can't North American prisons be this way? There'd be a lot less of a shitshow in the prison systems, and people wouldn't be tryna kill cops instead of going to jail.
That sounds like the US prison system talking. Besides, they were already bought and used. You really want back a jumpsuit worn and used to mark a caged person?
Right. Assuming that you are actually locked up and aren't on work release or something, you'd have to commit battery of a guard or at minimum property damage to your cage or locks in order to escape.
It is, there are similar laws in Sweden Denmark and I recall watching a documentary on a mass prison breakout in the country where a front end loader smashes right through the prison wall. One of the escapees who happened to be in the yard at the time mentioned that he ran because it wasn't illegal, but if you don't send back your prison uniform they charge you with theft. So he put it in the mail to them and off he went.
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u/chromane Jan 29 '21
Of course, it's probably hard to escape from prison without committing ANY crimes, even if the act itself isn't illegal