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those bastards get maxwell house! dammit...
And our "minimum" security jail is shit. Why? People keep escaping...
March 22 (Bloomberg) -- A murderer was missing from a U.K. jail today, the sixth convicted killer to disappear from the open prison in the last six months.
David Robert Chapman, 55, who is serving a life sentence, vanished from Sudbury prison, Derbyshire police said. More than 660 inmates have walked out of the jail in central England in the last decade.
Open prisons such as Sudbury house ``Category D'' prisoners, who are trusted enough to wander freely. They are required only to show up for daily roll call. Inmates are often sent to open prisons toward the end of their sentences, and the time they spend there is used to find work and housing and to reintegrate them into the community.
The Home Office defends housing some convicted killers in open prisons, saying they have been rigorously assessed and found to be of low risk to the public.
Chapman was convicted of murder at London's Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey, in 1983 after drowning his baby daughter. In 1993, he escaped briefly from a prison guard who accompanied him to a college so he could enroll for a literature course.
The director general of the Prison Service, Phil Wheatley, commended Sudbury in July and awarded the jail ``high performing'' status. The prison was given 25,000 pounds ($49,000) as a reward, some of which was spent on a champagne dinner for staff.
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