Five Missouri inmates returned to jail Saturday after escaping and fleeing the state Tuesday.
"On Tuesday, January 17, at approximately 7:00 PM, 5 inmates at the St. Francois County Detention Center made entry into a secured cell. From there, the inmates made their way through a secured door by use of force," St. Francois County Sheriff's Department explained in a Facebook post."The inmates then made their way to the roof of the Detention Center and eventually onto the ground.
Tucker, Sebastian, and McSean were all incarcerated for felony sexual assaults they committed in the Missouri Department of Corrections Sexual Offender Treatment Center. Pace was serving time for felony grand theft auto while Wilkins was in for felony burglary. All were subsequently facing charges of escape from custody after Tuesday.Wilkins was the first to be captured, as the sheriff's office received information that he was in Missouri in a city 80 miles south of the jail, Poplar Bluff.
Missouri's incarceration rate is 735 inmates per 100,000 people, which is higher than the national rate of 664 per 100,000, according to the Prison Policy Institute. Every year, about 128,000 people are booked into jail, while about 18,533 inmates are released, leaving roughly 51,000 inmates in various jails in the state.
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