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| Escaped youths from juvenile facility are caught |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/08/2001 |
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Five escaped youths from New Morgan Academy in Pennsylvania were captured recently, and officials at the youth detention facility plan to keep the teens confined to their rooms until an investigation is completed. 'We're going to be interviewing them as long as it takes to get some answers,' said Dr. Corby A. Myers, regional director for Cornell Companies Inc., of Houston, which runs the 214-bed facility. Officials reported the boys to be 17 years-old. The boys, whose names were not released, are from Philadelphia and were court-committed to the center for felonies like car theft. State police continued an investigation into the escape of the five youths, who crawled through a large hole that had been cut in a chain-link fence. Municipal police departments in four counties searched for the boys until the last one was arrested while walking along a creekbed in Akron, Lancaster County, police said. Three were caught near the center within three hours of escaping and a fourth was caught several hours after that in Morgantown. One of the escaped boys kicked out a window in a Robeson Township patrol car, officials said. Myers was unsure how the hole was cut in the fence at the academy. No instruments capable of cutting a hole in a chain-link fence were found inside the facility, Myers said. A total of 205 youths are in the academy, he added. The escaped boys were among 18 youths out for recreation when the five burst through the fence, Myers said. |
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