HoosierTimes: Inmate escapes Orange Co. jail -
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Published on: 6/6/2002
Last Visited: 6/6/2002
Mark Hackney, 28, Orleans, an inmate worker at the jail, walked away while doing his tasks, said Sheriff Doyle Cornwell.
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Every single guard here was surprised that he left," Cornwell said.
He added Hackney, who had about five years to serve for burglary and theft, left the jail because a guard corrected him a few days ago.
"He made a mistake while working, got reprimanded and wrote up, and thought we were going to take away his worker status and put him in regular inmate status.And so he left."
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A few hours later, Cornwell found him in Lawrenceport.
"I pretty much knew where he would be.He didn't have no place to go except to his dad's place.
"When I found him and his dad, he got out of his dad's truck and ran a little on the road," Cornwell said."So I pulled the car up alongside him and he said he had wanted to call and come back.
"And I think he would have in time.I told him he had to go back and I told him he wasn't going to have the same privileges and freedom.He broke down and cried, and then we brought him back."
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"I'll make this place work if it kills me. Unless I get voted out, but I think I'm the only one crazy enough to take the job," Cornwell said."It's like trying to keep water in a bucket made of screen wire."Wednesday's incident marked the third time in eight months that an inmate has escaped from the facility.