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anytime there s something like that, they send them to brushy mountain. guys that have nothing to lose, and they would rather die trying to escape than stay here. brushy mountain has had a long history of attempted escapes. and i guess this would be the most maximum security penitentiary in the state. michael king, serving a life sentence for murder, managed to break out of another tennessee prison in 1994. i escaped from a secure compound, northeast correctional. i packed myself up into some boxes and shipped myself out. i was part of the warehouse crew. i had taken yoga for several years, and i just squeezed myself in there in a very cramped position. brought some water with me and everything else. about an hour and a half before they shipped me out, they put me in the back of the truck. they took me to north carolina. they caught me while i was trying to get out of the truck. king was sent to brushy

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