Hulda digs a tunnel and escapes from prison, is that even allowed?

If you were serving a prison sentence, would you hatch an escape plan? Almost every prisoner dreams of freedom. Only a few actually make an escape attempt and even less often they are successful. Hulda Kiel from Boxtel succeeded. It wasn’t just a dream for her.

Is escaping from prison punishable? You can see that in this HOW..?

Hulda Kiel is also called the tunnel digger of Breda. In 2010 she managed to dig a tunnel with a spoon and thus escape from the women’s prison at De Koepel in Breda.

She was serving an eight-year sentence for a double attempted murder. With 21 months to go, she thought it was nice. A crawl space eventually provided the solution.

Almost caught
“That was simple,” she says. “I worked in the kitchen on the street side. I could also come there at night: sometimes for fifteen minutes, sometimes for a few minutes. The eight other women in the house where I lived did not notice anything. Once I almost caught, then I kept very still in the crawl space.”

On carnival Sunday she dug the last bit of her tunnel and crawled towards her freedom. She took a taxi to Boxtel and eventually ended up in Helmond, where she managed to hide from the police for six weeks. Eventually she was arrested there. She went back behind bars to serve the rest of her sentence.

In the video you can see whether she received extra punishment for her escape.

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