Officials in Kauai, Hawaii, say an inmate escaped from the Kauai Community Correctional Center and was almost immediately injured in a hit-and-run on Kuhio Highway. Inmate Matthew Ornellas Jr., 33, escaped just after 1 a.m. Friday, March 22, but then was hit shortly before 1:10 a.m. by what appeared to be a dark-colored vehicle on the highway. The driver failed to stop to render aid. Ornellas was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Authorities were still looking for the driver of the car.
* To give him a medal? To deputize him?
* Instant karma doesn’t get much more instant than that.
* How close to the highway is this prison? Did they build it in a cloverleaf?
* Wow. Life on the outside can be tough, too.
* Kauai is an island, so isn’t the whole place basically a prison?