Mexico's legal system recognizes that all people have a fundamental desire to be free. And it does not punish them for pursuing it, as some inmates recently did by disguising themselves as female visitors and tunneling to freedom using a sardine can as a shovel... "The person who tries to escape is seeking liberty, and that is deeply respected in the law," Juventino Victor Castro y Castro, a Supreme Court justice, said in an interview. "The basic desire for freedom is implicit inside every man, so trying to escape cannot be considered a crime.