Corrections Headlines

Fire camp escapee sentenced to 16 months

An inmate who walked away from the low-security Washington Ridge Conservation Camp and led law enforcement officers on a chase across four counties before being recaptured a month later was sentenced to 16 months in state prison Friday.

Lincoln resident Jeffrey Lynn Shook, 37, fled from the conservation camp, located along Highway 20 between Nevada City and Washington, on July 7, 2010. Investigators learned that Shook was associated with the Aryan Brotherhood and might be hiding with a prison associate in the Happy Camp area about 40 miles west of Yreka...

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