A convicted murderer serving life without parole escaped from an Arkansas jail -- for a second time.
Calvin Adams, 49, escaped from the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys, about 46 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee, according to a tweet from the Arkansas Department of Corrections.Adams was convicted of capital murder in Greene County in 1995 and sentenced to life without parole, according to the jail website.The charges stemmed from him kidnapping and shooting a man, CNN affiliate WMC reported.
The Arkansas State Police is assisting the jail with their search for the escaped inmate, Dina Tyler, an employee of Arkansas Department of Corrections, told WMC."We have had the dogs out. They hit a trail but it didn't pan out for us. State police has had their helicopter in the air and we've had all sort of officers on horseback and cars looking.
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