So, there are a lot of people serving life sentences at Phoenix," said Claire Shubik-Richards, executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, the de facto monitor of prison and jail conditions throughout Pennsylvania, told ABC News. "We have a large population of people serving life sentences in Pennsylvania, larger than most states because of our excessive sentencing laws in Pennsylvania. Unlike the understaffed Chester County Prison, the 3,830-bed Phoenix prison employs 1,200 full-time employees, officials said. Inmate Igor Vidra Bolte broke out of the prison in Pocopson Township on May 19 by scaling a wall in an exercise yard to gain access to the roof, according to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News. He was noticed missing that morning about an hour after he bolted when inmates returned from the exercise yard, officials said.Ĭavalcante followed the same method of escape and route previously used by an inmate at the Chester County Prison, Howard Holland, acting warden of the prison, told reporters during a recent press briefing. 31 from an exercise yard at Chester County Prison, where he was being held pending transfer to a state correctional institution. The Phoenix prison, the newest prison in the state, opened in July 2018 to replace the aging State Correctional Institution Graterford.Ĭavalcante escaped Aug. Similar to other inmates, he will have to submit the appropriate paperwork to create an approved visitor/telephone list." "His meals are served in his cell, and he receives the same diet as all other inmates. "At this time he is single-celled and is provided out-of-cell treatment services," Bivens said. READ | K-9 named Yoda helped authorities catch escaped murderer in PennsylvaniaĬavalcante, who is also facing homicide charges in his native Brazil, "is in a specialized observation unit for classification and security reasons," Maria Bivens, a Department of Corrections spokesperson, told ABC News Thursday. QP8931, is currently housed at SCI Phoenix in Skippack Twp., Montgomery County. The corrections department confirmed that Cavalcante, now known as inmate No. "The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has assumed custody of Danelo Cavalcante as of 3:00 PM on September 13, 2023, to serve his mandatory life sentence for first-degree murder," corrections officials said in a statement. The 34-year-old former fugitive, who was captured on Wednesday following a 14-day manhunt, was sent to the State Correctional Institution Phoenix to begin serving the life sentence for murdering his ex-girlfriend, punishment he tried to avoid by escaping from the county-run Chester County Prison, officials said. Man says escaped murderer stolen his footwear: 'They were my boots!'Ĭaptured killer Danelo Cavalcante woke up Thursday in a maximum-security Pennsylvania state prison that has never had a successful escape and once housed comedian Bill Cosby.
0 kommentar(er)
