Update: Escaped inmate turns himself in

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Update: Escaped inmate turns himself in

Story Published: Sep 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM EST

Story Updated: Sep 5, 2008 at 11:01 AM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Authorities say an inmate at a minimum-security prison who walked away from his work site in Aiken turned himself in to an Aiken County deputy.

A Corrections Department spokesman said supervisors last saw 37-year-old Thomas Lee Washington about 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

He was on a labor crew assignment with the Aiken Housing Authority.

Agency spokesman Josh Gelinas said Washington began serving a
five-year sentence last October for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature out of Florence County.

He was housed at the Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center in Aiken and was expected to be released in May 2010.

Washington now faces a felony escape charge, which carries a sentence of one to 15 years in prison.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Thursday, Sep 4 at 8:44 PM Maxine Nickerson wrote ...

I was there today at the Law Divison, when this was happen.I think in was the officer forth. where was him or her. was they doing they job. I don't think so He could had harm somebody, because of careless.

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