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The engineering feat was staggering. After half a decade of subterranean labor, the tunnel was finally complete. The prisoner chose his moment, entered the narrow passage, and began the long, final crawl toward what he believed was the exterior of the prison walls.
However, the climax of his journey was not the cool air of the Brazilian night, but the sterile glow of fluorescent lights. As the inmate broke through the final layer of earth and emerged from the floor, he didn’t find the forest or the city streets; he found himself standing directly inside a prison guard room.
