Love can make people do reckless and stupid things, as it did to Vicky White, an Alabama assistant director of corrections at Lauderdale County Detention Center who, in 2022, broke a violent inmate out of jail and fled with him in the hopes of achieving a happily-ever-after together.

Jailbreak: Love on the Run is an up-close-and-personal recap of Vicky’s saga, enhanced by copious security camera footage that depicts her carrying out this daring scheme, and audio recordings of her phone calls with her incarcerated beau. Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary (Sept. 25) flails in trying to cast itself as a heartening story about seizing happiness, but as a snapshot of the foolhardy acts that amour can drive sane individuals to commit, it plays as an eye-opening cautionary tale.

In 2020, Casey White (no relation) was transferred to the Lauderdale County Detention Center, a temporary holding facility that’s described as a “very intimidating environment” where parking-ticket violators and capital murder suspects coexist side by side. Casey was in the process of serving 75 years behind bars for attempted murder and other felonies. Moreover, he was facing an additional capital murder charge that was still under investigation and to which he had confessed. While awaiting trial for that latest slaying, he had been moved to Lauderdale, and it was there that he met Vicky.

Casey stood 6’ 9’’ and was covered in tattoos, and pictures and video of him in Jailbreak: Love on the Run verify that he was a man few would want to........

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