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