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ellisonz

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Sat Jun 21, 2014, 12:55 AM Jun 2014

Roof where OCCC prisoner escaped well-known hot spot for incidents



Roof where OCCC prisoner escaped well-known hot spot for incidents

Posted: Jun 19, 2014 6:32 PM PDT
Updated: Jun 20, 2014 1:34 PM PDT
By Keoki Kerr
By Lynn Kawano

KALIHI, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Oahu Community Correctional Center employees said Thursday prison managers were "well aware" that the roof area where inmate Daniel Skelton made his escape Monday was vulnerable to escapes, since other inmates had gone through a hole in the roof there before.

Sources said the Kalihi prison's surveillance video shows Skelton on the roof of OCCC's Annex One a little after 11 p.m. Sunday, more than six hours before he was discovered missing around 6 a.m. Monday. He wasn't discovered missing in spite of two head counts during that period, sources said.

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Sources said inmates have used the same hole to crawl onto the roof of the building and pick up contraband -- including drugs, cell phones, and cigarettes -- which people are able to throw onto the roof because the building is so close to the street.

During numerous shakedowns over the last two years, sources said guards have found prisoners' street clothes hidden in the rafters of Annex One, presumably for inmates to change into before escaping.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/25824973/exclusive-roof-where-prisoner-escaped-was-well-known-hot-spot-for-previous-incidents


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