NEW YORK (AP) — The real-life escape of two inmates from an upstate New York prison over the weekend has drawn comparisons to the fictional 1994 movie “Shawshank Redemption.” That story, based on a ...

When The Shawshank Redemption was introduced to the world in September 1994, it earned a reputation as one of the greatest films of all time thanks to its real-life depiction of incarcerated inmates.

In an epic prison break that brings to mind the film The Shawshank Redemption, two convicted murderers escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York on Saturday. The escapees, ...

They eventually emerged through a manhole on the other side of the prison’s 30-foot-tall walls. Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35 got their hands on power tools and drilled their way out of the ...