jail was either good luck or good planning themselves manage to bust through a maintenance hatch above the shower themselves crawled through a pipe space in the roof. then they knocked out a cement block to get to another room that & that took them the an unlocked side door which they pushed open for freel. the longer the manhunt continues for the other two inmates, still on the run, police tend to gain more options to find them. the more likely they ll run out of money. the more likely they ll have to go to people they know to get helpful get money. to be harbor asked hidden. it has happened before. prisoners getting help from the other side to evade the law. like this escape caught on camera in garland county, arkansas. the inmate jumped over a counter and through a glass window and he had someone waiting outside with the getaway car. nearly a month went by before authorities tracked him down and arrested him in florida. more recently, two convicts,
climb over and get out. reporter: that is exactly how it went down, according to the officials, the men busted through a hatch, crawled through a pipe space beneath the roof where the air conditioning and plumbing sit and knocked out a cement block to get to another room, taking them directly to an unlocked side door which they simply pushed open to freedom. i don t think it was a design fault. it s something that will have to be investigated but the jail is well built. reporter: our camera caught contractors back on the job, preparing the damage created by the jail break but could this sort of thing happen again? not even the sheriff could say for certain. there s lots of ways that people escape jails. we hope it don t happen again. reporter: so you know, we re looking over here and see a police officer passing by with a chickasha police department, something you d expect as they continue the search.
there is a design flaw in it that you can get in the shower, climb up, climb over and get out. reporter: the men busted through a maintenance hatch above the shower in the jail. they crawled through a pipe space right beneath the roof where the air conditioning and plumbing sit. then they knocked out a cement block to get to another room. that took them directly to an unlocked side door, which they simply pushed open to freedom. reporter: was this a design flaw? no, i don t think it s a design flaw. it s something we ll have to investigate. the jail was well-built. the people who built the jail built several jails around here. reporter: the sheriff said this is not a design flaw. well, somewhere it screwed up somewhere. might not be a design flaw, but somebody s got some explaining to do. reporter: our camera caught contractors back on the job repairing the damage created by
found and arrest. it just makes me nervous to think it s not built better. elevate there vidently, a de the shower. that is how it went down. reporter: according to officials the men busted through a maintenance hatch in the shower in the jail and crawled through a pipe space beneath the roof where the air-conditioning and plumbing sit and knocked out a cement block to get to another room and that took them directly to unlocked side door which they simply pushed open to freedom. i don t think it was a design flaw, no. i mean, it s something we will have to investigate, but the jail was wiell ble. reporter: camera caught contractors back on the jail to prevent this jail break again. let s lots of way that people escape jails. i can t say it won t happen again. we hope it don t happen again. george howell, cnn.
that it s not built better. there s a design flaw in it, evidently. get in the shower, climb up, climb over and get out. reporter: that is exactly how it went down, according to the officials, the men busted through a maintenance hatch, above the shower, crawling through a pipe space beneath the roof where the air conditioning and plumbing sit and knocked out a cement block to get to another room, taking them directly to an unlocked side door which they simply pushed open to freedom. i don t think it was a design fault. it s something that will have to be investigated but the jail is well built. reporter: our camera caught contractors back on the job, repairing the damage created by the jail break but could this sort of thing happen again? not even the sheriff could say for certain. there s lots of ways that people escape jails. i can t say it won t happen again. we hope it don t happen again. reporter: the front page of the express star, you see the