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Two Escape from Oklahoma Control Unit
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 19
Two Escape From Oklahoma Control Unit Two maximum security prisoners escaped on January 15, 2001, from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary's notorious Hunit, an underground control unit, only to be recaptured two days later.
The escaped prisoners were identified by ODOC spokesman Jerry Massie as James Robert Thomas, 25; and Willie ...
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