In Mississippi, a 21-year-old man received a 40-year Jail sentence for attempting to escape from a correctional facility shortly before his release. As per a report in Sky News, Shunekndrick Huffman escaped from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Aug 2022.
He broke into a nearby home & held 3 people at gunpoint for several hours. Afterwards, he stole a car from one of the hostages & crashed it.
After an extensive search, authorities located him hiding in a trash can at the Mississippi State Hospital in Whitfield, which is about 3.2 km away from the prison.
Huffman was quickly arrested and sent back to prison within hours, as reported by WLBT.
Remarkably, he was serving a 7-year sentence for aggravated assault and had an anticipated release date in Dec 2022, which was only 4 months away.
According to Rankin County District Attorney Bubba Bramlett, he confessed to 2 counts of kidnapping, & a circuit court judge sentenced him to 40 years in state prison, as reported on Monday.
Due to the unfortunate jailbreak, he might have to wait until he's in his 60s before being re-released.
The reason behind his attempt to escape just months before his release remains unclear.
Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain informed WLBT-TV that they would upgrade the siren system at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility to prevent similar escapes in the future.
The boss of the correctional facility, Burl Cain, also issued an apology at the time of the incident when a siren meant to alert locals about the escaped convict failed to go off.
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