It is true that Jorge salted the leadership with other self-made Cuban success stories, in part because he admired their achievements and in part because he wanted their contributions. (Is this really any different from Jewish, or Greek, or Turkish American organizations?) But it is also true that he never forgot the poor Cubans who sought to escape as he once did.

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But, Yves Galarneau, the deputy director general of Correctional Services Western Quebec, he'd never seen anything like this escape in his three-decade-long career.

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Yves Galarneau, who oversees the St-Jerome jail, said he had never seen anything like the dramatic escape in more than three decades on the job.

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Yves Galarneau, the correctional services manager who oversees the Saint-Jerome jail said he'd never seen anything like the dramatic escape in more than three decades on the job.

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"You're going to be hard-pressed to evade law enforcement (by) reading stuff on Twitter, " said Blanton, who added he has never heard of a criminal successfully using the service to escape police.

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"I never thought my songs would escape my bedroom, " he said.

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In a few unforgettable scenes, he nails the image of a guy who hardly dared to countenance escape, and never left.

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