How often do prisoners escape from jail?

Six escaped convicts from an Alabama prison were arrested Thursday in Tennessee. read more

And the numbers are declining. Fewer people have escaped from state prisons every year since 1994, and the percentage of prisoners escaping or going AWOL has fallen steadily, too. In 1993, 14,305 prisoners escaped out of a prison population of 780,357. That's almost 2 percent. True, there are still thousands of escapees a year. read more

Good Question. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 2,001 escapes from prisons in 2013. The category is classified as AWOL/escape and includes people who haven’t shown up or simply walked away from minimum-security facilities. read more