From the file "It's so crazy it just might work"

Prison guards in Belgium have made a plea for security to remain lax despite
a spate of breakouts.
Union representatives fear prisoners will turn to violence to get away if
they can no longer escape by conventional means.
They argue that allowing crooks to escape using non violent methods will
stop dangerous situations from developing.
Union Leader Filip Dudal said in a radio interview this week that prisoners
would still try to escape "even if we build underground bunkers".
He said: "It's better from them to build rope ladders or manage to escape
through a case of mistaken identity than planting bombs or taking the
wardens hostage."
In a recent incident, one man was helped from outside over an eight-metre
wall and another walked out of the prison wearing a visitor's clothes.
"We could build prisons that nobody could get out of, but they would be
unbearable," says the union.