Dwight Worker

Dwight Worker is an American who escaped from the Lecumberri prison in Mexico City, Mexico.{{cite web |title=Ottawa Citizen |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g64yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fe4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5030,1703999&dq=dwight-worker&hl=en |accessdate=2012-05-14 |date=1980-02-16}}{{cite web |title=The Altus Times-Democrat |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nxdDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XKwMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5164,2432018&dq=dwight-worker&hl=en |accessdate=2012-05-14 |date=1978-04-30}} He was incarcerated after being convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine. On December 17, 1975, two years into his 7-year sentence, he walked out of the prison disguised as a woman. He and his wife Barbara later wrote a book, Escape ({{ISBN|0-913374-76-8}}), about the experience, and a made-for-TV movie was released in 1980.{{cite news |title=Escape NYTimes |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/125324/Escape/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010031840/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/125324/Escape/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-10 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |accessdate=2012-05-14 }} In May 2012, the National Geographic show Locked Up Abroad aired an episode (season 07 episode 07) about Worker's story.