TENNESSEE INMATE HAS ESCAPED SIX TIMES

Philip Andrew Marshall has escaped from jail a total of six times. The latest was Monday at 5 a.m., just a month after his last escape from the correctional facility in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Before that, in October, Marshall and two other inmates got out by sneaking into the jail’s attic then using bed sheets as a makeshift rope to rappel to freedom. The month before that, Marshall escaped from the county’s workhouse, where he was staying as the county did repairs on the jail. Part of the problem is that the jail is so packed. The jail’s capacity is between 100 and 105 inmates, but it’s currently housing nearly 200 people. Sheriff Austin Swing says, “It’s very frustrating sometimes that employees don’t do what they’re supposed to do. You don’t leave a door open in the jail or a door unlocked in the jail.”
* It kind of defeats the purpose of jail, doesn’t it?
* If only there was, like, some way to get rid of incompetent employees so they didn’t work for you anymore.
* That’s a swing and a miss for Sheriff Austin Swing.
* A jail has an attic? Is that where they keep the Christmas decorations?
* I wonder how Marshall will escape NEXT month? I’m betting on sneaking out in a laundry bin.
* What we need here is Three Billboards Outside Shelbyville, Tennessee.