I read the article in the Denver post about a man who was convicted for a second degree murder charge. He later escaped and has been out for 32 years; he was caught just last week. This article made me wonder about how secure the prisons really are; if it takes the authorities this long to find someone what are they really doing with the money we pay them through taxes. This also brings up the issue of putting people who are really innocent in jail and letting the people who are really guilty stay out and commit other possibly more serious crimes. This article made me really wonder how the judicial system has gotten so messed up. This affects me more than probably anyone in the class because my dad is facing having to have work release for something that happened in a hockey game and easily could have been avoided by the player wearing a 20 dollar face mask. This makes me mad because the authorities should be spending more time finding people who they know are guilty instead of convicting more people who might not be guilty. This also reminds me of the story to kill a mocking bird because like in the book the authorities are worrying about something that may be a lie when something more serious is actually happening. Escaped prisoner caught - after 32 years