Even though Jerry Mercado, halfway through a three-year burglary sentence, was able to climb a fence and latch onto the underbelly of a maintenance truck, his odds of escaping from the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield should have been — at best — slim to none. Like all Connecticut...
Anatomy Of A Prison Break
Dave Altimari, Nicholas Rondinone, Hartford Courant
Sun, 01/14/2018 - 4:00am
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