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IT'S INEVITABLE ...EVERY YEAR
INMATES ACROSS THE UNITED
STATES ESCAPE FROM JAIL. IT WAS
ONCE A PROBLEM IN OUR
OWN BACK YARD...UNTIL THE VIGO
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
MADE A CHANGE IN PROCEDURES.
NEWS 10'S BRITTANY EARL
EXPLAINS WHETHER THESE CHANGES
WORKED.
" THE VIGO COUNTY SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT HAD
THREE PEOPLE RELEASED FROM JAIL
BY ERROR IN 20-11.
THOSE PEOPLE ARE OFTEN CHARGED
WITH ESCAPE UNLESS
THEY TURN THEMSELVES BACK IN.
COVERED WITH
VIDEO. IT WAS A PATTERN THAT
SHERIFF GREG EWING HAD TO PUT A
STOP TO.
AND HE DID SO BY REVAMPING
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES...RE
QUIRING SUPERVISORS TO DOUBLE
CHECK RELEASE FORMS.
"AND SO THAT REALLY HAS STOPPED
A LOT OF THOSE ISSUES
JUST HAVING A SECOND SET OF EYES
LOOK AT THAT BUT NOT TO
MENTION OUR COMPUTER SYSTEM
ACTUALLY
THROWS A STOP FLAG UP NOW THAT
THEY HAVE TO PHYSICALLY
DISMISS ON THEIR COMPUTER."
COVERED WITH VIDEO
EWING SAYS SINCE THE CHANGE IN
POLICIES THE
DEPARTMENT HAS HAD NO EARLY
RELEASE ERRORS.
THERE WAS A MALE THAT RAN FROM
THE COURT HOUSE BUT HE
WAS NOT IN POLICY CUSTODY AT THE
TIME.
AND RECENTLY A MAN RAN FROM A
POLICE CAR AS CITY POLICE
TRIED TO DROP HIM OFF AND BOOK
HIM INTO THE VIGO COUNTY
JAIL. BRIT ON CAM EWING SAYS HE
PREACHED TO HIS
DEPUTIES TO EXERCISE ACCURACY
AND NOT SPEED.
HE SAYS WHEN PEOPLE START TO
RUSH IS WHEN ERRORS HAPPEN.
IN THE NEWSROOM, I'M BRITTANY
EARL.
BACK TO YOU. "
ON AVERAGE.. THE VIGO COUNTY
JAIL BOOKS IN ABOUT 45 TO 50
THOUSAND PEOPLE A YEAR. SOME
ARE RELEASED RIGHT
AWAY BUT SHERIFF EWING SAYS
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
AND PAPER WORK TO KEEP TRACK OF
AND "THAT" IS WHY HE HAD TO
IMPLEMENT A NEW POLICY.
A WABASH VALLEY MAN IS ARRESTED
... ACCUSED OF