KS Escape??

[dilligaf]

Anyone have any news on the two inmates that escaped from El Dorado Correctional Facility? It is my understanding they were housed in SMU/SHU?

[Crosstimbers Okie]

It appears that another young filly has fallen for one, or two, of those ol' romantic outlaws. Those thugs are just so damned exciting!

www.kansascity.com | 10/29/2007 | Kansas inmates escape

Posted on Mon, Oct. 29, 2007 09:13 AM

Kansas inmates escape



Authorities were searching Monday for escaped Kansas inmates Jesse L. Bell (left) and Steven A. Ford. A vehicle used in the escape was traced to former corrections officer Amber Goff (right).
Authorities were searching Monday for escaped Kansas inmates Jesse L. Bell (left) and Steven A. Ford. A vehicle used in the escape was traced to former corrections officer Amber Goff (right).

Two inmates escaped from a Kansas prison Sunday evening, and a former prison employee may be linked to the escape, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Jesse L. Bell, 33, and Steven A. Ford, 26, cut through a wire fence and two perimeter fences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. They remain at large.

Early this morning, prison officials traced a vehicle used in the escape to former Corrections Officer Amber Goff, 23.

Goff’s white Ford Taurus contained items likely used in the escape. A search of her home also turned up driving directions to Canada. Goff worked at the jail from September 2006 through this month.

Authorities think the inmates are driving a light blue 2007 Ford Taurus with Arkansas license plates 088 LJT. Someone rented the Taurus at an Enterprise car rental location in Oklahoma City prior to the break out.

Bell is serving sentences from Finney, Leavenworth and Cowley counties for forgery, burglary, battery and escape convictions. He’s white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 250 pounds and has hazel eyes and brown hair. He has several tattoos on his arms, wrists and biceps.

Ford is serving time for robbery and indecent liberties convictions out of Wyandotte County. He’s white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighs 195 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his upper arms of a ribbon and a cross.

Both inmates should be considered armed and dangerous.

John Shultz, jshultz@kcstar.com

www.kansascity.com | 10/29/2007 | Family pleads for prison guard on the run

Posted on Mon, Oct. 29, 2007
Family pleads for prison guard on the run
The Associated Press





WICHITA | The brother of a former prison guard allegedly on the run with two escaped inmates pleaded Monday for his sister to “just come home before something bad happens.”

Authorities said Amber Goff, 23, who worked at the El Dorado Correctional Center for about a year until Oct. 11, played a role in helping Steven A. Ford and Jesse L. Bell escape from a prison recreation yard Sunday night.

“She is an active participant,” prison spokesman Dale Call said.

Both escapees have ties to the Kansas City area.

Bell has a Leavenworth County conviction. And in November 1998, Ford was one of six inmates who participated in a massive breakout at the Wyandotte County jail.

He was 17 at the time.

Officials said then that the six prisoners left their cells after one or more inmates manipulated locks on their cell doors and other doors.

Ford was recaptured two days later.

The El Dorado escape happened about 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Officials said Ford and Bell cut the fence of an individual exercise area where they are allowed five times a week. Authorities think they ran to a waiting vehicle, said Bill Miskell, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections.

He said both inmates were being held in the highest level of security, the same security level as Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer.

Goff’s older brother, Jonathan Crutcher, told The Associated Press by telephone that Goff was “a great mom, a good sister” and that the family does not know what happened.

“All we want is for her to come back home safe,” he said. “She is out there with those animals.”

Crutcher said Goff, a divorced mother, left Sunday to go on a date and never came home.

She left behind personal belongings for family members, including a book she had written to her children that police confiscated, according to family members.

“All signs point to my sister never coming home,” Crutcher said.

Crutcher, 26, also worked at the prison as a corrections officer from July 2006 to April 2007.

“I told her it would probably be the best job she would ever have,” he told The Wichita Eagle in a telephone interview Monday.

A vehicle traced to Goff — found 15 miles away in Augusta — contained items linked to the escape, prison officials said. Evidence found at Goff’s home, including driving directions to Canada, also implicated her.

But the investigation’s focus later shifted to Sayre, Okla., where Oklahoma authorities found inmate clothing believed to belong to the escapees at midmorning Monday.

Sayre is about 300 miles southwest of El Dorado.

Some of the clothing was bloody, Miskell said.

“We think at least one of the inmates was hurt going through the fence,” he said, adding that the inmate may be seeking medical help.

Goff’s family members reported that three handguns — two .22-caliber pistols and a .357 — had been stolen, and a receipt was found showing that ammunition for such guns was purchased recently, said Call, the prison spokesman.

Goff, Ford and Bell are now thought to be traveling in a rented 2007 light-blue Ford Taurus with Arkansas license plates 088 LJT.
Deb Gruver and Stan Finger of The Wichita Eagle contributed to this report.
© 2007 Kansas City Star

[CaptHadley]

UNBELIEVABLE! Unfortunate chain of events is right. I mean these thugs are out in a dog run at 2030? I don't understand how these special mgt inmates could get out of their rec traps and then cut through how many strands of razor wire before cutting through 2 fences? Then escaping before the response team can respond once the IDS activated? I mean GD does everyone go to bed at 2000 in Kansas? I can't wait for more details on the actual planning. I wonder how many staff assisted in the escape or contributed through complacency/derilection. Who's watching the cameras, fences, rec traps?
I don't want to bash the many fine COs at the joint but having been a former KDOC CO and still having many friends and relatives in the area I can say its a little troubling. I mean a prison staffs job is to keep the thugs behind the walls/fences.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

Captain Hadley, I think you are on to something my fellow Knuckledragger. It does seem that Kansas DOC has bigger problems than one retarded girl, if it's a fact that only one lovesick juvenile being compromised allows two thugs to excape from the state's administrative max prison. Big, big security problems when only one person stands between hard core thugs and freedom.

[KSDog]

Obviously we have issues getting quality officers. Low pay and high turnover are major contributors. The lack of properly manned towers is very disconcerting. We've cut down on staff so much that we're becoming dangerously understaffed (obviously).

[Crosstimbers Okie]

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