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US President Donald Trump told the New York Post Tuesday he had helped stop a prison break of European jihadists in Syria, referring to the Shadadi incident.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

A misconduct hearing for a Metropolitan Police firearms officer who fatally shot a man during a foiled prison break in 2015 has been discontinued.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Both sides blame the other for the prison break.

From Reuters • May 19, 2023

“Likability is a jail,” Mulaney says at one point in “Baby J,” and his self-deprecating punch lines about his own vanity could be viewed as a prison break.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

It felt, to Quang-ha, like some kind of prison break.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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