A court has reviewed security procedures after an inmate blatantly escaped through the front door while still in custody and wearing handcuffs.

Gerald Hyde II was convicted of drug charges and was escorted from the courtroom by guards. But less than a minute later, Hyde was found alone back in the now deserted courtroom and somehow escaping the clutches of the officers.

He took off his prison shirt and used it to cover his handcuffs as he walked out of the exit. He was then seen walking through the courthouse before removing his signature orange prison shoes and dashing out the front door.

The daring escape occurred at the Benton County Courthouse, Washington state on December 16 of last year.
Hyde was recaptured less than two hours later and sent back to prison. Commander Jon Law of the Benton County Sheriff’s Office told NBC that Hyde managed to slip past his guards by entering a corridor he described as a “blind spot”.

Commander Jon Law of the Benton County Sheriff’s Office told NBC that Hyde managed to slip past his guards by entering a ‘blind spot’ in the hallway outside the courtroom. ‘If it’s perfect, we’ll catch it and he will’ I wasn’t able to get to that gap and blind spot. I would call it human error,’ he said.

He added that in more than 15 years, the court had handled 250,000 inmates in and out of the court, and this was the first escape he knew of.
Since then, the court has considered security measures to eliminate blind spots and now locks all courtrooms during recess.

Officials say they have also identified other security vulnerabilities that were not used in the escape and have taken measures to patch them.

‘The hope is that we’ll get 250,000 prisoners back and forth across the court in 15 years and no escapes, that’s the goal. I think it’s achievable,’ Commander Law said.

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