Santa Clarita / Antelope Valley : Wife Who Tried to Help Inmate Escape Is Arrested : Crime: Brenda Page altered her identification and planned to give husband a set of men’s clothes. It is the first such attempt at the facility.

LANCASTER â€”  A woman was arrested after bungling an attempt to help her inmate husband escape from the state prison here, the first such incident at the 11-month-old facility.

Brenda Page, 30, was arrested Sunday at the California State Prison Los Angeles County. She was being held at the Sybil Brand Institute for Women in East Los Angeles in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Page used an altered identification to be admitted to visit her husband, whose name prison officials would not release, said prison spokesman Kenn I. Hicks. On questioning, the Long Beach resident also admitted wearing men’s clothing under her own clothes, which she intended to give to her husband so he could somehow escape.

The woman, Hicks said, put a picture of herself on an identification card bearing the name of a relative. Both Page and her relative were approved visitors to Page’s husband.

“She wanted to come in as someone else so she could . . . possibly try to help her husband escape and we’d be looking for someone else instead of her,� Hicks said.

Prison guards, Hicks said, thought something was wrong with the identification at the time Page was being processed to visit her husband, who is being held in maximum security. Nonetheless, she was allowed to visit her husband since the name she provided was that of an approved visitor.

At the end of the visit, Hicks said Page was questioned and admitted to altering the identification, wearing the men’s clothing under her own and planning to help her husband escape.

Hicks said Page never gave the clothing to her husband, who may also face charges.

The prison, which houses about 4,000 inmates, allows visitors Thursdays through Sundays. An average of 1,300 people visit the inmates each week.