The Pennsylvania prison from which cunning inmate Danelo Cavalcante escaped is reportedly beefing up security after the embarrassing escape.
The Chester County Jail will block access to its roof and change its guard stations when inmates are exercising in the yard, according to TMZ.
The temporary improvements, which also include a guard stationed on the roof, are intended to prevent other inmates from copying Cavalcante, the convicted murderer who escaped from prison on Aug. 31 by crab-walking up two walls.
Once on the roof, the tiny 5-foot-tall killer launched himself through the barbed wire and ran across the roof in a race to freedom, TMZ said.
According to the outlet, the new barrier blocking the path to the roof has been placed behind the barbed wire.
County officials also gave the green light to a proposal that would build a roof over the prison’s exercise yards, TMZ said. And prison officials will also review surveillance procedures.
When he escaped, Cavalcante had just been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death in front of her two young children in 2021.
Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from Chester County Prison on Aug. 31 and was on the run for nearly two weeks in southern Pennsylvania. AP
Authorities captured Cavalcante last week when Yoda, a police K-9, sank his teeth into the cunning killer and pinned him to the ground.
He spent nearly two weeks on the run in southeastern Pennsylvania, eating stolen watermelons, drinking water from a stream and hiding in the woods from the hundreds of local, state and federal agents who were furiously searching for him.
Some of those police officers got very close to the killer without even knowing it; Cavalcante told authorities after his arrest that he had been nearly stepped on three times while he was hiding in the dense undergrowth.
“They were about seven or eight meters away from him,” U.S. Marshal Robert Clark told NewsNation last week.
Cavalcante said authorities were so close to him at times during the chase that they almost stepped on him. Via REUTERS
“We think he was brutally honest,” Clark continued. “He described things like hiding his fecal matter under leaves so we couldn’t detect it.”
Cavalcante told police his ultimate goal was to use a rifle he took from a home’s garage to commandeer a car and flee to Canada or Puerto Rico.
“He said he was going to do that in the next 24 hours,” Clark said. “And that was the reason she kept that firearm. “He knew that he needed a gun to get a vehicle.”
Cavalcante escaped by crab-walking through two walls and running across the ceiling in a mad dash to freedom. AP
Authorities finally caught the mini killer last Wednesday morning, when a Belgian Malinois K-9 named Yoda sank his teeth into Cavalcante and pinned him to the ground.
It was not the first time Cavalcante went on the run after allegedly killing someone.
He is suspected of shooting a friend to death in 2017 over a dispute over car repair payments in his Brazilian hometown.
After that murder, he hid in Brazilian ranches for weeks before heading north and illegally entering the United States.
A preliminary hearing for Cavalcante was set for Sept. 27, according to court documents, which note that he was denied bail.
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