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Originally Posted by Raellus
...couple of hundred men couldn't figure out a way to bust through a few metal doors? It would take time and a lot of muscle power, but it's entirely possible.
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Not when they're designed to prevent more than a few men at a time applying their strength, and there's no suitable materials available to make rope - prison sheets for example are made to come apart easily when put under that sort of stress, mostly as suicide prevention, but also to eliminate their use as rope to go over walls, etc.
Even if you could get rope strong enough to handle the MANY tonnes of tension, getting that many prisoners to work together all at the same time would be an absolutely amazing feat of leadership. Most can't even work in pairs without somebody ending up with a shiv in the ribs.
Additionally, prisoners spend most of their time in relatively small groups (unlike what movies like to show), with gates, doors, etc between each group. It's really only in the exercise yard that they can be found in larger numbers, and then they're locked out of the buildings and away from all the useful stuff that might help them escape.
I really can't imagine the guards letting the prisoners have essentially free run of the place when they walk off the job. More likely they'd be locked inside perhaps with access to the kitchens, latrines and food storage areas, but beyond that....
I know here in Australia on the rare occasions guards go on strike, police have to take over. At those times the prisoners remain locked inside their individual cells with food delivered to them. A toilet and hand basin are in each cell to cover immediate needs. The only difference to that I can see in a T2K situation is the police wouldn't be stepping in to keep an eye on things and it's unlikely food delivers would occur. Might be a prisoner or two released into the gaol to attend to that, but they'd still be locked within the walls just like everyone else (just with a little more leg room).