Police hunt for inmate mistakenly released in Md.

[February 26, 2010]  BALTIMORE (AP) -- Authorities in Maryland are searching for an inmate who walked out of a Baltimore prison after impersonating his cell mate.

Division of Correction spokesman Mark Vernarelli said Friday that law enforcement agencies are hunting for 26-year-old Raymond Taylor of New York.

Taylor, who was serving three life sentences for attempted murder, was mistakenly released from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center on Thursday afternoon.

Commissioner of Correction J. Michael Stouffer says procedures weren't followed when Taylor was put in the same cell with an inmate who was to be released.

Stouffer says Taylor presented himself to guards with the other man's ID card and recited the other inmate's ID number to a series of different prison workers.

[Associated Press]

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