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PHILADELPHIA — A corrections officer at Chester County Prison warned staff that Danilo Cavalcante was preparing to escape weeks before he broke out, according to county officials. “I am just sending this cause I don’t want this to come back on us or [Officer Gerardo] Hernandez in any way. He noted back in July that this inmate was planning an escape,” Sergeant Jerry Beavers wrote in an email to Captain Harry Griswold hours after Cavalcante escaped on Aug. 31 by crab-walking up the prison’s wall onto its roof. The email was first reported by ABC News. Cavalcante — who had been sentenced to life......

PHILADELPHIA — The call came over police radio at 8:18 on Wednesday morning, and the people of Chester County breathed a collective sigh of relief. “The radio room, Chester County government, and various other agencies working on the prisoner escape are proud to announce the subject is in custody,” the dispatcher said in a calm, even voice. “Repeating: The subject is in custody.” As those words crackled, Danilo Cavalcante was finally handcuffed. An armored vehicle was driving him to a Pennsylvania State Police barracks for questioning on how, exactly, he had been able to outrun and outmaneuver......

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants permission from the federal government to house migrants in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, the infamous jail that closed down in 2021 following years of complaints over dangerous conditions. Daniel Perez, a top lawyer for Adams, expressed City Hall’s interest in using the defunct downtown Manhattan lockup in a letter sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration last week that listed off various sites the city believes it could use for housing migrants amid severe overcrowding in city-run shelters. Perez’s letter, a copy of which w......

NEW YORK — Notorious “Preppy Killer” Robert Chambers, convicted for the brutal 1986 Central Park strangling of a teenage girl in a blockbuster Manhattan case, was paroled from prison after serving 15 years on a separate drug rap. The now 56-year-old Chambers was released Tuesday from the Shawangunk Correctional Facility, according to state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision records. It was his second stint behind bars following his earlier incarceration on a manslaughter plea for the headline-making “rough sex” killing of victim Jennifer Levin. Chambers was freed on Valentine’......

MIAMI — The man who was fatally shot in Miami Beach after holding a woman hostage was an escaped inmate out of New Hampshire, new details show. Darien Young, 29, escaped from a “halfway” house, the Calumet House transitional housing, in New Hampshire on July 21, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections said. He was imprisoned for two counts of receiving stolen property, controlled drug acts prohibited, burglary and falsifying physical evidence. He had a minimum parole eligibility date of July 31 with a maximum release date of Jan. 31, 2028. It’s still unclear how Young made it to Miami Beac......

An assault suspect held in a Rikers Island jail somehow got his hands on a Correction Department uniform Thursday night and walked around pretending to conduct rounds in a possible attempt to escape, according to correction sources, officials and records. Bokeem Jones, 28, donned the DOC uniform — including the official shirt, jackets, trousers and boots — in the Otis M. Bantum Correctional Center at some point before 10:30 p.m., the sources said. He walked into an intake area in the stolen uniform momentarily then left as if he was touring the housing area like an officer. He then was walking......