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FL Work Releasees Reporting to Work Late Doesnt Amount to Escape
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2006, page 39
FL Work Releasees Reporting to Work Late Doesn't Amount to Escape
Leon Williams, a prisoner in a state work release center, left the center to walk to work but was 90
minutes late getting there. When he arrived he was arrested and charged with escape under Fla.
Stat. sec. …
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