Panel Formed to Look Into Prison Escapes
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The Monterey County Sheriff’s Department will form a new panel to investigate escapes from the County Jail. The plan for an internal escape-review board comes less than two weeks after Carlos Flores, a 23-year-old robbery suspect, walked out of the jail after impersonating another inmate who was set to be released.
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