The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law ...

Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

A photo from surveillance footage showed Hardin wearing the outfit and pushing a loaded cart as he escaped. Champion said Hardin was gone for about 20 minutes when an officer noticed he was missing.

Arkansas officials blame prison employees for 'Devil in the Ozarks' escape Officials said a kitchen supervisor left Grant Hardin alone on a loading dock and a tower guard let him out the gates.

Rand Champion, Chief of Communications for the ADC, said two people employed at the North Central Unit were fired in the days following the escape of Hardin.

He fled the prison around 3 p.m. that Sunday through a sally port in the detention facility, wearing a makeshift ADC-style uniform, ADC communications director Rand Champion said previously ...

Personnel changes were made at the Arkansas Department of Corrections after an inmate known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" walked away from a prison in May, a spokesman for the department said Wednesday ...

Lee Watson told legislators the corrections board has never asked for the 3,000-bed mega-prison the governor is pursuing.

A former police chief known as the "Devil in the Ozarks" did not have help when he walked out of a north-central Arkansas prison in May, touching off a two-week long manhunt, the head of the state's ...

He fled the prison around 3 p.m. that Sunday through a sally port in the detention facility, wearing a makeshift ADC-style uniform, ADC communications director Rand Champion said previously ...

Hardin briefly attempted to run from officers when he saw them approach, but he was quickly tackled to the ground, said Rand Champion, a spokesperson for the Arkansas prison system.

A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his escape by fashioning a makeshift police uniform, Arkansas prison ...