How to write a prison escape?

Question

I'm open to anything realistic. Im not involving rocket ships or werewolves or vampires. For some context, the novel is about these 5 teenagers that all have to escape prison to save their father. It is set in HM prison in liverpool and they can fight, invent, hotwire cars, steal and manipulate. Anything REALISTIC and not too dark is on the table. Hope this is enough info, help a girl out, lol. X

Answer 1

This is your story. YOU chose to put those five teenagers into a very specific prison. Couldn't you at least have put them into a prison that nobody could identify?



Nobody forced you to put the teenagers into prison. So how to get them out is entirely up to YOU. This is a major part of your story, and it shouldn't even be there if you have no idea how to resolve it.An episode like this should show each character's particular strengths. Only YOU know what those are.

What I'm saying is, YOUR story, YOUR decisions.

Answer 2

Have their mum bake them a cake with a file and a hacksaw inside, silly. That's how.

Answer 3

A prison escape.



A prison escape (referred to as a bust out, breakout, jailbreak, or prison break) is the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways. Normally, when this occurs, an effort is made on the part of authorities to recapture them and return them to their original detainers. Escaping from prison is also a criminal offense in some countries, such as the United States and Russia, and it is highly likely to result in time being added to the inmate's sentence, as well as the inmate being placed under increased security. In some other places, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the absence of other factors such as threats of violence, actual violence, or property damage).



Many prisons use security features such as motion sensors, CCTV, barred windows, high walls, barbed wire, razor wire, and electric fencing to prevent escapes.

Answer 4

You will need to research the current HM prison in Liverpool: layouts, routines,etc.



Are the prisons so crowded that all five members of one family sleep in one cell?  If I were running the prison, each would share her or his cell with a stranger.

Answer 5

Make them escape through the roof, after they see water leaking from the roof after it rains. They follow to leak and see a hole, which they make bigger. Water

damage had rotted some of the wood on the roof, and they pull it off.

Then, they rappel down the building with sheets, but one of them is a

girl who is afraid of heights, so she finds a fire escape to climb down.

Answer 6

No if they are teenagers they are in a young offenders institution, and they are more concerned with being bummed daily by the staff and other inmates.



The idea of every single member of a family of Scousers being locked up, is quite believable though.

Answer 7

So all five brothers? or are there sisters involved as well? are ALL teenagers and ALL in an adult prison...what on earth did they do? what kind of family IS it?

You start off with such an utterly fantastic (meaning fantasy related, not wonderful) idea that if one of them gets a job in the kitchen and stuffs all the feathers plucked from the chickens into his trousers every day, to smuggle to his cell, while another demands long sessions in the chapel, during which he steals as many wax candles as he can get away with, while another works in the tailoring section and cuts out wing shapes in heavy material in the lunch hour, the fourth gets garden duties so he can steal bamboo canes, while the last one helps the librarian and reads up on aeronautics - and they all let themselves out of their cells one night to make wings from the feathers, wax, canes and canvas, and fly away it would hardly seem out of place...

Answer 8

Look up Toby Young and John Maynard. Toby was a woman who volunteered at the prison teaching the inmates to train dogs. She fell in love with her student John and smuggled him out of the prison in a dog crate. She had gained enough trust at the prison that she wasn't closely watched or searched, even though she should have been. Your teens could get involved in a similar educational program and either convince the instructor to help them or somehow sneak on to their vehicle.

Answer 9

Good writers don't write about things they know nothing about because they know it won't be realistic. Yahoo Answers is not the place a good writer would do their research on the subject.