A prisoner is on the run within the US after he and three different inmates staged a Shawshank Redemption-style jailbreak.

The 4, who had been being held at Bent County Jail in southeast Colorado, reportedly pushed via a dry wall ceiling of their cell, which used to function a kitchen, and used bundled blankets to make it appear as in the event that they had been truly of their beds.

From there, the inmates received via the roof of an adjoining toilet, US information company, KOAA mentioned, citing Bent County Sheriff Jake Six.

One of them, Mark Fox, 46, continues to be on the run, whereas two others have been captured and the fourth discovered useless from a suspected drug overdose, Sheriff Six mentioned on Tuesday.

Benjamin Valdez, 34, was discovered useless in close by Pueblo, in accordance with the Bent County Emergency Management Agency.

The different two unnamed inmates who escaped had been recaptured after they known as for an ambulance for an overdose early on Tuesday.

Fox was described as a white man, bald, 6 ft, 3 inches (190cm) tall and weighing 210 kilos (95kg).

The quartet's escape has echoes of that within the movie, Shawshank Redemption and the Stephen King ebook it's primarily based on.

In the film, a prisoner knocks via a wall, overlaying his escape gap with a poster of movie star Rita Hayworth earlier than breaking out by way of a sewage pipe, leaving garments in his mattress to make it seem he was nonetheless there.

All of southeast Colorado's regulation enforcement personnel are "actively searching for Mr Fox" and US marshals have been known as and can shortly be serving to within the hunt, Sheriff Six mentioned on Tuesday.

The precise time of the escape is unclear, however Mr Six mentioned it was both late on Sunday night or early on Monday morning, aided by workers failing to make an correct head rely both on Monday morning or Tuesday morning.

The jail homes inmates from each Bent County and subsequent door Otero County, he added.

The Prowers County Sheriff's Department is investigating what occurred whereas safety preparations on the jail are being checked by the Department of Corrections, Mr Six mentioned.

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