Inmates who escaped from Noxubee jail captured
Two inmates who escaped from Noxubee County Transitional Center in Macon Sunday night have been taken into custody again.
Man escapes juvenile detention center on 18th birthday
A Columbus man was jailed in the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after authorities say he escaped from the Lowndes County Juvenile Detention Center on his 18th birthday.
After second escape attempt, kidnapping suspect moved to Lowndes
An Oktibbeha County inmate who tried to escape the county jail has been moved to the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after what officials believe may have been a second attempt to break out of jail.
Habitual kidnapping suspect attempts jail escape
A man who faces two attempted kidnapping counts is now looking at more charges after an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the Oktibbeha County Jail on Tuesday.
Officials seeking escaped prisoner
State authorities are searching for an escaped man convicted of robbery and burglaries in Choctaw and Oktibbeha counties.
Talent show ‘promoter’ arrested after jail escape
A man who last summer attempted to a hold a talent show on behalf of a non-existent record company has been arrested by local law enforcement after escaping a Mississippi Department of Corrections facility where he was being held on multiple charges.
Columbus, DA’s office each chip in $3,000 toward reward for escaped inmate capture
Columbus City Council upped the ante Tuesday to help law enforcement find an escaped inmate from Lowndes County Adult Detention Center.
Jailers disciplined in wake of inmate escape
All nine Lowndes County Adult Detention Center employees on duty when an inmate escaped from the facility earlier this month have received “pretty serious discipline,” according to sheriff’s office chief deputy Marc Miley.
Sexual assault convict back in custody after escaping jail
Terry Hill, a 44-year-old West Point man recently convicted of numerous felonies stemming from a 2016 Cotton District assault and sexual battery, is back in custody after escaping from the Oktibbeha County Jail Friday.
Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard
A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday.
Noxubee rife with unverified convict sightings
Authorities have so far been unable to verify numerous reports in Noxubee County that two escaped convicts from Georgia have been spotted in the Macon area.
Clay Co. grand jury indicts accused jail escapee
A grand jury in Clay County has indicted an inmate for trying to escape from jail.
Traffic stop escapist reports to SPD
A Brooksville man wanted on numerous charges, including escaping from the back of a Starkville Police Department cruiser, turned himself in to authorities without incident Thursday.
SPD seeks man after traffic stop escape
The Starkville Police Department is looking for a Brooksville man who escaped from the back of a patrol car after a Saturday traffic stop.
Worker who helped 2 killers escape gets up to 7 years
A sobbing former prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup said she regretted her “horrible mistake” as she was sentenced Monday to up to seven years behind bars as part of a plea deal.
Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day
Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year.
Prisoners say they were beaten after pair escaped
Inmates who knew the two convicted killers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern New York reported beatings by guards trying to determine where the pair went, according to a legal services group.
US asked Mexico to extradite drug lord before escape
Just weeks before Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman sneaked out of a maximum security prison in Mexico, the U.S. government had requested formally that the drug kingpin be sent to the United States to stand trial on a variety of drug trafficking and conspiracy charges, the Justice Department said on Friday.
Official: Prison chief, 11 others put on leave after escape
The superintendent at the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief and 10 other staff members amid an internal investigation into how the inmates pulled it off, a state official said Tuesday.
Convicted killer thought fellow escapee was slowing him down
Two convicted killers who staged a complicated prison break together and then spent more than two weeks roaming in thick New York woods finally split up when one man decided his companion was slowing him down, going their separate ways a few days before one was shot and the other captured, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.