Call it The Shawshank Rejection: Two former inmates of a western Pennsylvania county jail have allegedly been caught digging a hole in a cinder block cell wall.
The Daily American reports the charges against 35-year-old Joseph Lee Bockes and 33-year-old Billy Ray Naill were charged Tuesday, though the hole was discovered Feb. 9.
That's when Somerset County Warden Gregory Briggs found the 4-inch-wide opening, about 3 inches deep.
County detectives say the men used a 2-foot piece of metal from a cell bed to dig. The two allegedly hid the tool in an overhead lighting fixture and covered the hole with paper. It's not immediately clear why the hole was dug.
An inmate in the 1994 movie, "The Shawshank Redemption" dug an escape hole he hid behind a poster.
