Thursday, July 20, 2006

An escape risk?

On this page on the FBI's top ten most wanted, I have extracted this excerpt:

GLEN STEWART GODWIN IS BEING SOUGHT FOR HIS 1987 ESCAPE FROM FOLSOM STATE PRISON IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE WAS SERVING A LENGTHY SENTENCE FOR MURDER. LATER IN 1987, GODWIN WAS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN PUERTA VALLARTA, MEXICO. AFTER BEING CONVICTED, HE WAS SENT TO A PRISON IN GUADALAJARA. IN APRIL OF 1991, GODWIN ALLEGEDLY MURDERED A FELLOW INMATE AND THEN ESCAPED FIVE MONTHS LATER.

CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND AN ESCAPE RISK

Now what really confuses me is that this guy is AN ESCAPE RISK. How can he be an escape risk if he's already escaped? Surely that's why he's on the FBI's top ten most wanted list: because he isn't in custody anymore.

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