Crime | Joseph Banks One Fugitive Caught After Daring 17-Story Escape Joseph Banks nabbed, but Kenneth Conley remains at large By Mark Russell Posted Dec 21, 2012 5:44 AM CST Copied Jose Banks, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago on Dec. 18, was captured by police late last night. (AP Photo/FBI, File) One of two convicted bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise prison in Chicago on Tuesday—scaling down 17 stories using bedsheets—was captured late last night, reports the Sun-Times. Joseph "Jose" Banks was caught unarmed in northern Chicago around 11:30pm. The manhunt continues for the second escapee, Kenneth Conley. A union official blamed staffing shortages for the prison break: Though the escape was caught on surveillance video, he says the two guards assigned to the CCTV control room were too busy performing prisoner counts and answering phones to monitor the cameras properly. Officials still have no idea how Banks and Conley broke through the prison wall to the outside or how they acquired the 200 feet of bedsheets they needed to scale down the building, reports the AP. Read These Next Trumps ends trade talks with Canada. Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. Supreme Court gives Trump big win on national injunctions. Report an error