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Loaded on June 15, 2003 published in Prison Legal News June, 2003, page 34
Filed under: News, News in Brief. Location: United States of America.
Arkansas: On March 25, 2003, Fulton county jail prisoners Bobby Woodrum and Brian Shanckle, both 19, escaped from the jail by handcuffing a female jail guard to a chair, stealing guns and ammunition and running off in the jail's jeep. They were recaptured without incident ten hours later.


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