Davis eventually tried to escape after three years inside when, on September 19, 1937, he and six other convicts took the warden and two guards hostage.

Prisoners armed with at least two handguns had taken the guards hostage Tuesday night after an escape attempt failed, said Lee Carter, a guard.

January 1991: In riots at the Shenkoll (Saint Nicholas) maximum security prison, an armed prisoner took several guards hostage.

He seizes control of the hospital's adjacent wing, holding guards hostage and ordering a lockdown of the building.

Years later, Lion-Mane orchestrated a prison riot and took the guards hostage.

After the convicts had taken the guards hostage, they were deciding what to do next.

He was also arraigned this month on charges that he had held several guards hostage during an uprising at the jail on Aug. 15.

During the escape attempt the men held a number of guards hostage, but gave up when they failed to cut through the tool-proof bars.

Security guards were brought into the house to bring order; that order failed as the housemates then held the guards hostage.

Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards hostage.