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News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Bold New Orleans Escape Calls Attention to Poor Jail Conditions by At around 12:30 a.m. on May 16, 2025, 10 detainees escaped from a New Orleans, Louisiana jail through a small rectangular hole in a cell wall. Images showed a metal toilet and sink torn from the wall; etched above …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Arkansas Ex-Police Chief Known as “Devil in the Ozarks” Re-Captured After Prison Escape by A former Arkansas police chief who was convicted of rape and murder was recaptured on June 6, 2025, two weeks after escaping prison. The state Department of Corrections said Grant Hardin escaped dressed as a prison …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Escapes
Four Escapes in Eight Months from Oklahoma Jail by After slipping away from Oklahoma’s Caddo County courthouse January 22, 2025, detainee Levi Yeahpau spent a day on the run until he was recaptured. His uncle, Daron Highwalker, said that the detainee “basically [] walked out both front doors, and he …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Filed under: Escapes
Two Mississippi Prisoners Escape in One Month by The Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC) confirmed that prisoner Drew Johnson, 33, was back in custody on December 25, 2024, a day after escaping from South Mississippi Correctional Institution. It was the second DOC prisoner escape of the month; Gregory Trigg, 45, …
Charges Dismissed Against Connecticut Guards Who Assaulted Prisoner by Misdemeanor assault charges were tentatively dismissed in November 2024 against three Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) guards accused of assaulting Garner Correctional Institution prisoner Elijah Hamlin, 26, in a 2023 incident captured on leaked cellphone video. Danbury Superior Court Judge Charles …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Escapes
Two Who Escaped from Arkansas Jail Recaptured by Two detainees were back in custody a week after breaking out of W.C. “Dub” Brassell Adult Detention Center in Arkansas’ Jefferson County on January 22, 2024. Noah Roush, 22, and Jatonia Bryant, 23, cut a hole in the ceiling of a shower, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Escapes, Murder by Escapees
Dramatic Prisoner Escape in France Leaves Two Guards Dead by A massive manhunt was underway in France on May 14, 2024, after a prison van was ambushed at a highway toll booth by four armed accomplices of prisoner Mohamed Amra, 30. He escaped in the ensuing shootout, which also killed …
$700,000 Jury Verdict for Wisconsin Prisoner Denied Due Process in Disciplinary Hearing by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On November 27, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied state prison officials’ motion for new trial. That left standing a jury verdict finding that …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Escapes
Escaped Idaho Prisoner Recaptured, Three Accomplices Charged by A two-day manhunt ended on March 21, 2024, with the capture of escaped Idaho prisoner Skylar Meade, 31. Three alleged accomplices have also been arrested, including fellow Aryan Knights gang member Nicholas Umphenour, 28, who was held before his January 2024 release …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Escapes
Pennsylvania Detainee Found Four Months After Jail Escape, Five Guards Fired by Almost four months after escaping Blair County Prison, jail detainee Isaiah Tilghman, 33, was arrested on March 22, 2024, while headed into a Planet Fitness gym near Philadelphia, over 200 miles from the western Pennsylvania lockup he fled …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Escape from Oregon State Hospital Results in Changes to Detainee Transports by Facing charges including attempted murder, assault and robbery, Christopher Lee Pray, 39, was being evaluated for fitness to stand trial on August 30, 2023, when he commandeered an Oregon State Hospital (OSH) transport van returning him from a …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
“Missing” Texas Prisoner Prompts Lockdown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 20, 2022, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC) said that a prisoner reported missing the day before at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont had been “found within the prison’s perimeter fence.” But in a letter …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
High Profile Escapes from Two Pennsylvania Jails Blamed on Staffing and Infrastructure Problems by After separate escapes from a pair of Pennsylvania jails, two detainees were recaptured during summer of 2023 – but not before making headlines, as one eluded authorities for nine days and the other for two weeks. …
South Carolina DOC Investigates Jail After 30 Detainee Injuries, Two Escapes and Five Guard Arrests by According to a report by the Charleston Post & Courier on July 31, 2023, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) had dispatched a team to inspect the Richland County jail, after a series …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
DNA Matches Dead Australian to Nebraska Prisoner Who Escaped 56 Years Ago by After his death in 2010 at age 69, John Vincent Damon’s family members would occasionally walk through Tamborine Mountain Cemetery in Queensland, Australia, just to stand at his grave. He left behind a wife and two adult …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who then committed suicide …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Escapes
U.S. Marshals Pull Out of Virginia Jail After Two Escapes in One Day by After two detainees escaped from Virginia’s Piedmont Regional Jail (PRJ) on April 30, 2022, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced it was relocating its detainees while the jail “works to improve security measures.” This is bad …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Life Sentence for Alabama Jail Escapee After Suicide of Guard Lover Who Helped Him by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On June 8, 2023, a judge in Alabama’s Lauderdale County handed a life sentence without parole to a state prisoner for escaping the county lockup with his jail-guard lover, who …
Article • June 27, 2023
Filed under: Escapes, Staffing
Two Philadelphia Jail Escapees Recaptured After Ten Days on the Run by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi On May 7, 2023, at roughly 8:30 p.m., two detainees escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center. But it was not until the next day that guards realize they were missing. That was …
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