Thirty-five years after escape, fugitive
returned to Mississippi prison from Utah
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[February 21, 2015]
(Reuters) - A man who escaped from a
minimum security prison in Mississippi 35 years ago was captured in Utah
and returned to Mississippi to serve out the remainder of his sentence,
officials said on Friday.
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Sam Harris, 62, was sentenced in 1979 to six years in prison for
burglary and possession of burglary tools, the Mississippi
Department of Corrections said in a statement.
He escaped from the Forrest County Community Work Center in southern
Mississippi the following year, the department said.
Mississippi authorities learned of Harris's whereabouts from the
FBI, the state's prisons department said. He was extradited from
Utah on Sunday.
Before his arrest in January, Harris had lived in the town of
Wellington, about 100 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, for 23
years, KSL-TV quoted a local sheriff as saying.
During his decades on the run, Harris had come into contact with law
enforcement and had used aliases, said Mississippi Department of
Corrections spokeswoman Grace Fisher.
Harris will not incur additional prison time for his escape because
fleeing from a community work center was at the time a misdemeanor,
the department said in its statement.
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He will be eligible for release in 2018.
(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in New Orleans; Editing by Mohammad
Zargham)
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