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| 67 escapes: 5.7 percent of inmates flee Iowa DOC’s Davenport halfway houses |
| By qctimes.com |
| Published: 08/29/2012 |
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Ceneca R. Johnson has been arrested three times in seven years for robbing Davenport banks at gunpoint. When collared the third time Monday, he was supposed to be serving a 10-year term in custody of the Iowa Department of Corrections, but had walked away from its downtown Davenport halfway house. Johnson’s escape follows 67 reported by the DOC in two years. We were astounded by that number, provided by Jim Wayne, director of Iowa DOC work-release centers in Davenport. Our news records suggest Johnson was the 11th walkaway. But Wayne explained those are only the inmates for whom the DOC sought public assistance to capture. The others? Most were found without alerting the public. Wayne’s data for the past two years shows those 67 escapes account for 5.7 percent of the 1,169 offenders held over the past two years at the two Davenport facilities. Seven remain at large. An eighth has been located in Wisconsin, but Wayne said the time remaining in his sentence doesn’t warrant extradition. Those are numbers that never came up during public discussion of the $10.5 million, seven-story Residential Corrections Facility that opened Oct. 19, 2010, to increase the number of Iowa offenders offered work release and furloughs. 58 percent succeed Wayne is mindful of those escape numbers but focuses on a different number. In 2011, 58 percent of Davenport halfway house residents complied with rules and earned release. Another 36 percent were returned to prison for violating halfway house rules and policies. “Escape is not a common way to leave the program,” Wayne said. But escapes are not entirely preventable in a program intended to slowly integrate offenders back into society. “It’s a consistent trend. We’re going to see a number of failures in the processing of this many people. Unfortunately, that goes with the territory. It’s a minimum-security program.” Read More. |
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