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Jail. it was something i'm sure to their minds was just an unthinkable thing. eventually i got about $200 or $300. we had it pretty well planned out, exactly what we were going to do. chako had paid a guard to make a copy of the key to the gate through the bathroom that would let us outside. he kept it on himself. he found two guards that he knew would be willing to take the money and he thought would keep their word.

I had heard about a man named chako in the jail. the guards took him serious because they knew that if they double-crossed him, there was a good chance he'd come back and kill them. i thought he'd be a good partner. i walked up next to him and started talking to him. chako liked to joke around and seemed like a pretty normal person to me. i told him that i wanted to finance an escape. >> are you serious? >> he told me he felt we could buy off the two guards in the tower for about $100 each. down there, the guards were probably only paid $3 a day. so $100 to them was a fair amount.

But we also needed to bribe one of the guards on the inside, so we could get a key for the door going from the inside cell to the outside part of the jail. >> what do you think, gringo? >> chako seemed to know what he was doing. when you trusted somebody, you were taking a big chance. but i was willing to risk my life at a chance to get out of there. i wasn't going to be able to get out of there without any money. so i started writing letters to my parents pretty much begging for money. i was actually quite ashamed to write these letters. i had let them down quite a bit by getting myself invol...

My cell was one of the last to be let out. when i went into the bathroom area, i saw chako was over in the corner. there was only one guard inside of the cell area. once you're in the bathroom, you're pretty much out of sight of the guard. it wasn't very long until they called the rest of the people back to their cells. once everybody was out of the bathroom, chako moved over to the gate real fast. and then slowly turned the key as quietly as he could.

But they rotated guards in the tower. so we had to wait until the two guards that we had picked were in the tower at the same time. it took about three or four weeks. they were putting us back in the cells and chako said, tonight's the night. we just went back into our cells like everything was normal. we didn't want anybody to sense that we were gonna try to get out of there that night. around 11:00, they would let the cells out one at a time to go into the bathroom. the plan was to, once everybody had cleared out of the bathroom, we were going to open up the door, go outside and climb the fe...