In Little Rock, Arkansas, police are on the lookout for two murder suspects who recently escaped from a southwest Arkansas jail. The officers noticed that the two men were gone early on Memorial Day morning, and assume that they made their escape in the hour interval when there was no one there to check on them. A guard found them missing when making rounds at about 3:15 a.m. According to the police, the two suspects sawed through the bars that were on a windrow that was about a foot wide and three feet tall.

They broke the glass pane on the window with one of the bars, and then used a mattress cover to lower themselves five feet down from the window. They then had to jump ten feet to the ground below. From the investigation, police found that the men originally tried to cushion their landing from the building with a mattress, but when they shoved it out the window it sailed too far away. After this phase of the escape, the two had to scale a 10 foot fence and somehow avoid getting injured in the razor wire. They then dug under another fence and out of the jail property.

Some of the inmates in the jail told reporters that they heard banging at the time that the two men must have been making their escape. No surveillance cameras captured the incident. The inmates who had heard the loud noise did not let any of the jail guards know until the two men were long gone and on the run. Right now, many police are interviewing the friends and family of the two men, hoping that they will turn up at a relative's house where they can be caught and incarcerated once again.

The cops even tried using dogs to trace the men, but the tracking dogs weren't able to detect a traceable scent because of the hot and dry weather. Authorities are still not sure how the two men managed to obtain the hacksaw blades, but they are looking into it. Court records show that both the escapees were charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses last year. They have not yet had their trial, and the case was scheduled for some time later in the summer.

If found, the two men will now face charges for escaping from jail on top of their murder and weapons allegations. In a lot of states, escaping from jail is considered a criminal offense. The punishment depends on whether or not the escapee used violence or force to get out, and how serious his or her offenses were in the first place. In most of America, a person convicted of first-degree murder who escaped from prison would be accused of a felony. In some jurisdictions, courts will rule that it is human nature to want to escape from prison, and those who try and succeed will be tracked, but will not get any extra time added to their sentence.

Yet the fact is that most people will be given severe punishments like years of extra prison time for sneaking out of jail. People who escape from jail automatically become fugitives that are wanted by the police. Even if they do successfully evade the officers that are searching for them, these people will have to adopt pseudonyms and stay hidden from anyone that could detect them and rat them out. If you are in jail and you are not guilty of the crime you have been charged with, your best possibility to get out of jail isn't escape. Instead, you should hire a professional criminal defense lawyer who can represent you in court. If you are successful in proving your innocence, you may able to get out of jail in no time the legal way.