Two remand prisoners break out of New Amsterdam jail

Ravendra Samaroo

Two remand prisoners on Wednesday night managed to get down from the top flat of a building in the compound of the New Amsterdam Prisons with bedsheets before jumping over a perimeter fence outfitted with razor wire and up to press time they were still on the run.

Just how Ravendra Samaroo and Lennox Patterson were able to remove a single 1 x 12 board from the wall of the remand dormitory, get eight to ten feet to the ground and then scale a fence that is at least 15 feet high undetected, is still baffling police investigators. This is the latest scandal to rock the prison where several stabbings and gang-related