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| Escape attempt from N.J. prison fails |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/27/2003 |
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An inmate attempting to escape South Woods State Prison in N.J. was caught yesterday after a corrections officer fired at him, but missed. Walter Waddy, 29, had scaled a 15-foot fence near the industrial building in Bridgeton, where he had been working when an unidentified officer shot at him, said Deirdre Fedkenheuer, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. Waddy, a minimum-security inmate serving a 22-year term for robbery, terroristic threats and unlawful possession of a weapon, suffered cuts to his hands from the fence's razor ribbon and was treated at a Bridgeton hospital, Fedkenheuer said. He was then transferred to the maximum-security New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. 'Anybody who tries something like this -- and this is fairly unusual -- will go to the maximum-security prison,' said Fedkenheuer. Waddy, whose mandatory minimum sentence after his 1996 conviction in Burlington County was 7 1/2 years, would have become eligible for placement at a halfway house in about a year, but the escape attempt will delay that. The attempt will also delay his parole eligibility date, which was Feb. 20, 2005, Fedkenheuer said. |
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