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Inmate Captured After Escape
11-03-2009 08:38 AM CST
| By ###Todd Dunne/ml
(New Orleans, LA) -- Authorities say an inmate in the custody of the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff's office has been captured after he walked away Monday morning from a prison security detail. Authorities say 20-year-old Shawn Francis walked off a kitchen detail at the parish Security Complex, but there's no word on how Francis was able to escape the facility. He was caught later on the Xavier University campus after a campus police officer spotted him in his prison orange jumpsuit.
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