The largest prison break in history: 1971 Montevideo

The largest prison break in history: 1971 Montevideo

It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971.  Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel that has been chiseled and dug slowly and silently for eight months, and they creep one by one underneath the prison. It is the stuff of movies. Or of legends. Or of cartoons. The only sound is the ruffle of their prison uniforms and the occasional scr…