In this Jan. 22, 2016, image taken from a video released by attorney Salvatore P. Ciulla on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on behalf of defendant Adam Hossein Nayeri, an escapee of the Orange County Jail, Nayeri poses after reaching the roof of the prison in Santa Ana, Calif. (Salvatore P. Ciulla via AP)
In this Jan. 22, 2016, image taken from a video released by attorney Salvatore P. Ciulla on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on behalf of defendant Adam Hossein Nayeri, an escapee of the Orange County Jail, Nayeri poses after reaching the roof of the prison in Santa Ana, Calif. (Salvatore P. Ciulla via AP)more
In this Jan. 23, 2016 file photo, Orange County sheriff's deputies investigate after three jail inmates charged with violent crimes escaped from Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. Video shot with a contraband cellphone shows the escape of the three inmates from the maximum-security wing of the jail last year, as well as scenes from their days on the run. (AP Photo/Kevin Warn, File)more
In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2016 file photo three inmates captured are seen on a video monitor at Orange County Sheriff's news conference in Santa Ana, Calif. From left, Bac Duong, 43, Hossein Nayeri, 37, and Jonathan Tieu, 20, who escaped on Jan. 22 from Central Men's Jail in Orange County. (AP Photo/Nick Ut,File)more
In an age when everything else is captured for public consumption on a smartphone, why not your own jailbreak?
Inmates who broke out of the maximum-security wing of a California jail last year did just that with a smuggled cellphone and through an attorney released it to the public Wednesday.
It shows the kind of images usually relegated to movies like “The Shawshank Redemption,” with the three inmates shimmying into a vent and crawling through plumbing shafts.
It was provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday by an attorney for Adam Hossein Nayeri, one of the escaped inmates.
The crisply edited video has a pop-music soundtrack and includes TV news clips about the escape and subsequent manhunt.
It also contains voice-overs by Nayeri, recorded after their capture, giving his version of events.