Lorna Poplak’s latest true-crime book, On the Lam: Great (and Not So Great) Escapes from Prison, hit the shelves in October 2025, with fascinating stories of the age-old tug-of-war between prisons struggling to keep inmates inside and inmates desperate to get out. Along with probing the origins, structure, and shortcomings of a variety of historic and contemporary correctional institutions, On the Lam brings into sharp focus the attempts — sometimes successful, occasionally deadly — of masterminds, tricksters, scoundrels, and innocents to claw their way to freedom.

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