Texas Inmate Escapes By Rappelling with Bedsheets

Before his high-tech string of bedsheets escape on Saturday night, Texas prison inmate Joshua Duane Barnes was serving his 35 year prison sentence for several felony convictions including burglary, aggravated assault and, get this, two prior attempted escape convictions. Did anyone want to check his file before deciding to leave him alone in an unsecured medical facility building?

According to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman, Jason Clark, escaped prison inmate Barnes was being housed at a prison facility in Midway but was taken to the medical facility after being hurt in an altercation last week.

Clark says that Barnes was last seen at 8:15 pm and, approximately 15 minutes later he was gone. According to Clark, Barnes had removed a vent in the wall, broke through a thick window, rappelled down the side of the building from the seventh floor to a roof with a string of bedsheets he had tied together and then jumped to the ground.

Not to worry, even though Texas prison inmate Joshua Duane "bedsheets" Barnes is on the loose, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has released the tracking dogs and dozens of officers and local police to help track down this slippery escape artist.

Written by Gabriel Dorman
Los Angeles, California
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