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| These 28 NJ inmates escaped custody in 2016 — and are still free |
| By nj1015.com |
| Published: 12/28/2016 |
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Right now, there are 44 escaped New Jersey inmates walking free. Of those, 28 escaped in the last year. Nearly all of those who’ve slipped away from the state Department of Corrections were residents of halfway houses and similar facilities. Of those currently wanted by the state, none have broken out of an actual prison in decades. “If an inmate wants to escape from a halfway house, they really can,” DOC spokesman Matt Schuman said. “They’re out at their job, or at a school, and they don’t come back.” This May saw a rare exception to the pattern — when Arthur Buckel’s escape from Bayside State Prison in Hammonton prompted a multi-state manhunt. Buckel, convicted and sentenced for for aggravated assault and burglary — escaped from a work detail at the Ancora Hospital of Bayshore State Prison in South Jersey. He’d previously served jail time for killing his girlfriend’s baby. Read More. |
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