text: Compared to where he wanted to send the officers attempting to stop his rampage, yes, prison IS a resort. You obviously have no experience of prison life and culture. I do, having refused to kill for Nixon in his illegal war on SE Asia. Compared to where Nixon sent 13 high school classmates, prison was a resort, and I saw the worst parts of it, including the Hole at McNeil Island. If all those presidents who have taken innocent lives were in prison the world would be a better place, but funerals for other sociopathic world leaders wouldn't be so well attended.
  
  Bank robbers were the highest status prisoners I met, honored by other inmates, but I didn't meet any cop-killers. They would probably have outranked the unauthorized withdrawal perp's. I'd say he tried to get taken out by a cop, but wanted to take at least one of them with him. I guarantee you he's a star behind bars. How much jail time have you done to speak so authoritatively? Or is what you know derived from TV & movies?