The Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama managed to lose a prisoner who was participating in a dog training exercise.
David Hopkins, was playing the part of a fugitive when he vanished in the woods and failed to return for head count. A warning was posted to “be on the lookout” for the 37-year-old inmate, who is serving a life sentence for theft.
Hopkins, who was found within an hour, denied that he had tried to escape and said that he had simply been lost.
Hopefully the episode will help the good folks at the Limestone Correction Facility iron out the kinks in their man-hunting procedures, but you do have to wonder about the ethics of an exercise that has prisoners pursued by semi-trained dogs. You also have to wonder what David Hopkins stole to get himself a life sentence. [Decature Daily]
