Time Runs Out on Larimer County Inmates’ Scheme

Seems a little exercise wasn't all a few of the inmates were up to at Larimer County Jail the other day....

Get the scoop on how time ran out on an escape plan involving a clock!

This past Tuesday, at the Larimer County Detention Center in Fort Collins, deputies caught five inmates trying to turn parts of a clock from the gymnasium into sharpened "shanks".

According to reports from The Coloradoan, the inmates had taken the metal guard off the gym's clock (They probably hatched and executed that part of their plan while being in the gym for an extended period because of construction going on in the center)

The inmantes took the pieces of that clock guard out to the yard, and began scraping them on the concrete to sharpen them up.  Jail deputies heard the scraping- I can imagine -"What the *&**# is THAT noise?" and investigated.

By the time the sharpening/plan was exposed, the five inmates HAD managed to sharpen two of the four pieces of metal that they had stolen into shanks about 6 inches long and a quarter-inch wide.

From Sarah Jane Kyle's story in The Coloradoan:

"Having weapons like that makes it dangerous not only for the other inmates, but for the deputies themselves," [John Schulz- Public Information Officer for the Larimer County Sheriff] said. "That's a major concern. We're glad we were able to stop that before it got any further than it did. It just shows that our continued routine checking and making sure that's done properly is important every day."

It will take about a week to fully investigate the incident- according to the sheriff.

A clock guard turned into a weapon is just one of the many 'craft projects' inmates often come up with: