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| Shackled Teen Boy Bolts from Mass. Prisoner-Transport Van |
| By Boston Herald |
| Published: 09/10/2002 |
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A barefoot and shackled teen escapee was pulled out of a Massachusetts cranberry bog last night six hours after he kicked out a window and jumped from a moving prisoner-transport van on Friday. 'They pulled him out about 15 minutes ago. He's a little soggy right now, but he's OK,'' said state Department of Youth Services spokeswoman Mary Sylva. 'He was cold and wet. They said he was up to his ears in muck when they found him. He was probably glad to get out of there.'' The 18-year-old prisoner, who was committed to the DYS for assault and battery four years ago, was in the process of being transported to a secure DYS lockup at the Plymouth County House of Correction when he made his escape at about 3:30 p.m. 'He kicked out a window and started to climb out as the van was going down the highway at 60 miles an hour,'' Sylva said. 'He was barefoot and shackled hand and foot, but he had gotten his hands in front of his body,'' Sylva said. She said it is standard DYS policy to shackle all prisoners and remove their shoes while they are being transported if they have been committed to a secure facility. She explained that shoes are removed specifically to prevent prisoners from kicking out windows or running. Sylva said that when the van's driver saw what the youth was doing, he started to slow down and pull over so the prisoner would not be injured and so the two DYS staffers in the van could deal with the situation. But Sylva said, 'By the time the van stopped, he was over a fence. He exited the van while it was moving.'' There was another teen prisoner in the van who did not run away. Sylva would not identify the youth, citing DYS privacy rules. |
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