Fugitive Danelo Cavalcante followed the same method of escape and route used by an inmate at the Chester County Prison, Howard Holland, the acting warden of the Chester County Prison said.
Holland laid out a timeline of Cavalcante's escape, noting that the fugitive missing for nearly an hour before anyone noticed."Cavalcante escaped from the prison by crab walking up a wall, pushing his way through razor wire installed after Bolte's escape, running across the prison roof, scaling more razor wire," Holland said.He said Cavalcante was first noticed missing when inmates were brought back in from the exercise yard at 9;35 a.m.
The search for Cavalcante is centered in an area near the Chester County Prison, where he has been spotted at least four times, officials said. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania State Police, which is leading the search for Cavalcante, released images of the fugitive taken by a trail camera Monday night in Longwood Gardens, a sprawling horticulture attraction about 5 miles southwest of the prison he escaped from.
"One of the issues brought up was the once the razor wire was put in place, it was determined by our security advisors that this one level of security was sufficient," Holland said. "In fact, what was perhaps overlooked was the fact that addressing the single point of security countermeasure should have been bolstered by additional means."
Hurst was captured in Philadelphia following a 10-day manhunt while Grant was taken back into custody by U.S. Marshals a few days earlier.He said that unlike state and federal prisons, county jails and prisons have the least funding and resources to guard against escapes or to conduct threat and vulnerability assessments on a regular basis.
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