Inmates escape Chicago prison

This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Joseph "Jose" Banks, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, Dec. 18, 2012. Banks and Ken Conley appear to have busted away concrete to enlarge a window opening then climbed down about 16 stories on the makeshift ropes to make their escape. Banks, known as the Second-Hand Bandit, was convicted earlier in the month of two bank robberies and two attempted robberies where he made off with a nearly $600,000, $500,000 of which is still unaccounted for. Conley was convicted of robbing nearly $4,000 from a bank in 2011.

This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Kenneth Conley, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago, Dec. 18, 2012.

A rope protrudes from a window opening outside the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Ropes hang down the side of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

A rope dangles from a window on the back side of the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search for evidence and secure the area around from the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Crime scene tape surrounds the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search a parking structure attached to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Crime scene tape surrounds the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search a parking structure attached to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search for evidence and secure the area around from the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Crime scene tape surrounds the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search for evidence and secure the area around from the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search a parking structure attached to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Crime scene tape surrounds the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

The federal Metropolitan Correctional Center where two convicted bank robbers escaped stands in the south end of the Loop on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

Police search a parking structure attached to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop after two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.

A sign hangs on the side of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in the Loop where two convicted bank robbers escaped on Dec. 18, 2012, in Chicago.