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Escaped Prisoner Rides into Sunset
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 2
Eight federal prisoners being transported in a van operated by Federal Extradition Agency escaped July 30 near Ordway, Colorado. Two guards working for the private transport firm were driving nine prisoners across Colorado when they stopped to drop one prisoner off at the Crowley county sheriffs department. One guard took ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Transport Companies,
Contractor Misconduct,
Escapes.
Location:
Colorado.
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