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DOC investigating how inmate escaped prison
By koin.com- Amy Frazier
Published: 05/02/2014

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — The Department of Corrections (DOC) answered questions on Thursday regarding an inmate’s escape on Wednesday.

Police captured 30-year-old Matthew Medlin Wednesday night at a Jack in the Box restaurant, located at NE Martin Luther King Jr. and Columbia boulevards, nine hours after he climbed a fence at the Columbia River Correctional Institution and escaped.

DOC officials said Medlin was a kitchen worker at the minimum security prison located in an urban area. Authorities said he was taking out the recycling Wednesday when he made his escape.

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