For me, I don't "do" politics but the reason I was just talking to my husband about budget cuts having some place in the story of how this happened - though nowhere near as large a place as the escapees, Joyce, and Gene have - is because it's been said repeatedly in MSM that budget cuts was why there were no guards in the watch tower when the guys escaped, which IMO has a direct play in this because the manhole they popped up out of was situated such that they may well have been detected if it had been staffed. JMO based on :
"The manhole was closest to the two 35-foot watch towers on the south side of the prison. For years now, they have not been staffed overnight.
Several corrections officials noted that there was no direct line of sight from the towers to the manhole. However, one officer who has worked in the towers said it was likely that movement there would have been detected."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/n...ape-an-array-of-oversights-set-the-stage.html
It just seems like watch towers at a max security prison should have someone in them, JMO, call me crazy.