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Escapee Douglas Alward Collects $15,000 For Humiliating Capture
By westword.com- Alan Prendergast
Published: 05/22/2015

Everybody knows that crime doesn't pay — at least, not in any of the 129 episodes of Dragnet available on Netflix. But one notorious state inmate has figured out how to make the risky business of breaking out of prison pay off. According to the terms of a hush-hush settlement agreement reached a few months ago, the Colorado Department of Corrections agreed to pay escape artist Douglas Alward $15,000 to resolve his claims that prison officials violated his constitutional rights and publicly humiliated him in the course of recapturing him.

Alward, 53, first went to prison at age seventeen for attempted murder; he's since racked up more time by busting out of one joint after another, only to be tracked down each time. His seventh and latest escape in 2010 made headlines across the state. Alward not only defeated the supposedly foolproof electronic "kill" fence at Sterling Correctional Facility, he was considered a highly dangerous fugitive, having kidnapped a citizen and shot at a police officer during previous breakouts. He surrendered three days later outside of a house near Yuma, after holding a woman hostage for two hours.

Alward picked up another couple of fifteen-year sentences out of that episode and was shipped off to the Colorado State Penitentiary, the state's highest-security prison. But the part of the story that hasn't been told is what happened after Alward surrendered. According to a handwritten complaint by Alward filed in federal court, DOC guards ordered him to the ground, handcuffed him, and performed a thorough strip-search, pulling down his pants and inspecting every orifice for contraband or weapons.

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