46-Year Fugitive From Road Gang Is Freed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A man arrested for walking away from a prison work gang 46 years ago was freed after authorities decided incarcerating him served “no good purpose.” Sam Turner, 75, had been a fugitive since 1951, when he fled a road gang in central Georgia while serving an eight-year term for voluntary manslaughter and burglary.
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