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CO Prison Escape Touchy Subject
By cbs4denver.com
Published: 09/08/2010

STERLING, Colo. (AP) ― A prison official declined to tell Sterling residents exactly how an inmate escaped from a nearby maximum security prison, citing security reasons.

Ari Zavaras, director of prisons for the Colorado Department of Corrections, told a town meeting Tuesday that Douglas Alward gathered materials inside the prison that helped him escape. Zavaras refused to elaborate.

Alward, 48, was serving time for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and burglary when he escaped the Sterling Correctional Facility on Aug. 22. He surrendered three days later at a home near Yuma, where he had been holding a woman hostage.

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