Inmate

Assistant Police Chief Tony Gray said an inmate who walked off of work detail Monday morning with Boyle County Detention Center was later found behind the soft drink machines at Wal-Mart. The inmate, Dallas Sanders, 23, of Monticello, had been reported as missing at 11:30 a.m. Danville Police received a call at 1:14 p.m. Monday about a person matching the description of a jail escapee, saying he had been seen in Wal-Mart. Sanders originally was lodged on March 26, charged with fleeing and evading police and trafficking in a controlled substance.

If you are concerned about escapes from Northpoint Training Center and want to be notified in the event of a jail break, AlertXpress might help you rest easier at night. The automated “prison alert notification system” has been around for a while - it's made available through the state Corrections Cabinet for all Kentucky prisons - but has never fully been publicized in the Northpoint area, said prison spokeswoman Michelle Bonta. “It's not something new, we just want to make the public aware of it,” Bonta said Thursday.

LEXINGTON - A federal prison guard from Harrodsburg finds himself on the other side of the law after being indicted Thursday for sexual abuse of an inmate and providing cigarettes to that inmate. Frank G. Stivers, 27, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Lexington on charges of sexual abuse of a ward and providing an inmate with contraband. Stivers, who worked as a guard at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 if convicted.

STANFORD - An inmate walked away from work release Tuesday, but he did not get far. Charles Christopher Moore was captured not far from the Lincoln County Recycling Center on Ky. 698 where he fled. After a brief search of the surrounding area, Moore was apprehended without incident, state police said. Moore was taken back to the Lincoln County Regional Jail on a second-degree escape charge. Trooper R.G. Wren is investigating.

HARRODSBURG - An inmate who escaped from the Fayette County Detention Center in Lexington was arrested Sunday by Harrodsburg police. Benjamin Edwin Caudill, 33, was located at 342 James St. and taken to the Boyle County Detention Center. The arrest came after a citizen saw Caudill's photo on the news and contacted Harrodsburg Police Department. Harrodsburg and Mercer County deputy sheriffs went to the James Street residence and found Caudill hiding in a closet, police said.

Dear Editor, The recent riots at the Northpoint Training Center are bound to cause a lot of finger-pointing. The question would be: Why did this happen, and who is to blame? As a retired correctional employee, I would like to make my observations. We elect politicians and send them to Frankfort with instructions to get tough on crime and cut government cost. The elected officials pass laws and regulation acting on our demands. The laws and rules flow through the legal system and end up with judges who, based on their interpretation of the law, get tough on crime.

STANFORD - Members of Lincoln County Fiscal Court are considering a home incarceration program they hope saves the county money and offers relief to the overcrowded jail. "It's more than just a home incarceration program," said County Attorney Daryl Day. "It has a lot of benefits given our jail population from time to time. " It's a global positioning system that will be contracted out to Bridges in Communities, the same company Garrard County contracted with for inmate monitoring earlier this month.

Those who are registered to receive notification from Northpoint Training Center in the event of an escape will now learn a little bit more about the escapee. Under an enhancement to the AlertXpress notification system, subscribers will get a recorded message and be given information about which inmate escaped, a description and the charges for which the inmate was incarcerated. This is more than was provided under the old system, which notified people only of the date and time of the escape.

A former inmate at the Boyle County Detention Center alleges in a federal lawsuit that he was subjected to an illegal body cavity search. John Francis of Harrodsburg, who is now an inmate at Northpoint Training Center, filed the claim last week in U.S. District Court in Lexington. It names Jailer Barry Harmon, deputies Danny Sallee and Scott Rousey, and nurse Brenda Rousey as defendants, and asks for $200,000 in damages from each of them. Francis, who is acting as his own attorney, maintains in the lawsuit that the two deputies and the nurse performed an unconstitutional search of his anus on March 3 while looking for drugs.