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| Report: Dozens of prison escapees still missing |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/26/2004 |
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At least 40 inmates who escaped from Ohio prisons, some decades ago, remain at large and in some cases are no longer the subject of arrest warrants, the Akron Beacon Journal reported on Jan. 18. The two agencies most accountable for prison escapes -- the State Highway Patrol and the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction -- can't agree on the number of escapees they're looking for. Last summer, at the request of the newspaper, the patrol released a list of 14 fugitives. There were no active warrants then for three of them, including a convicted child killer who has been missing since 1973 when he was allowed to go Christmas shopping unescorted. The prisons department, responding to the same request, in December named 43 inmates who have escaped or walked away since 1952. The patrol list had at least one name not on the prisons list. According to the newspaper, the state prison system's Web site doesn't list any of the 43 fugitives as wanted, instead labeling them in a public prisoner database as "incarcerated" or "released." Ohio's fugitive list, as detailed by the prison system, includes seven convicted murderers, three sex offenders and nine robbers. All walked away or escaped between 1952 and 1999. |
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