From the St. Louis Dispatch:
Lorenzo Pollard, 31, escaped from a St. Louis jail by fighting off more than a dozen correctional officers with nunchucks made from bed sheets and a chair in his jail cell.
Pollard used his weapon as he was being led by guards to a shower area. As guards called for backup, he climbed to a second tier of jail cells, continuing to swing the nunchucks.
He also used his homemade weapon to break through some glass blocks, then jumped out of the hole he created and scaled two razor and barbed wire fences.
Last year, five inmates escaped from this prison but were eventually caught.
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