Impossible Escape

This piece is meant for an audience between the ages of 18 and over. This piece is to inform the audience of how even the impossible can be achieved if one puts their mind to it.

Inmates on kitchen detail were grilling pancakes just after 3 a.m. at the sprawling Toronto Prison complex. Ricky Wassen , a cook, had been studying the weaknesses in the prison's Morey Unit for four years, and chose a Sunday graveyard shift to launch his plan. He knew at this hour the place was guarded mostly by "fish" - inexperienced officers with only months on the job. If he and his cellmate, Steven Coy, could get to the arsenal in the tower, freedom was just a mad dash through the administration building. If they could persuade others to join the escape, all the better.
Wassen crossed the kitchen armed with a large, hand-sharpened metal rod and an industrial-size stirring paddle. He cornered Kenneth Martin, the lone officer on kitchen duty, in a back office.
"I've got nothing to lose, and this is an escape," he said. He ordered Martin to strip. "If you do what I tell you, nobody will get hurt."
Wassen handcuffed Martin inside the office's tool room. Coy used electrical wire to tie up a female civilian kitchen worker on the floor beside Martin. Wassen went back into the kitchen to face the 17 other inmates on breakfast duty: "This is your lucky day, guys. We're getting outta here. If any of you want to go, let's go."
There were no takers, so Rooster, as Wassen was known on the yard, herded them into a food-storage closet. He donned Martin's uniform, shaved off his beard and headed to the tower, leaving Coy alone with the captives in the kitchen.