January 30, 2009
Prison worker charged in inmate escape
A prison worker is charged with helping an inmate escape.
Marvin Melton used to work at the prison in New Castle. The prison is owned by the state of Indiana by operated by The GEO group. Melton was assigned to guard a minimum security dorm that is away from the main prison but still inside the fence. The dorm is home to what the prison system calls the most trusted inmates.
Friday morning, Melton was arrested and charged with helping one of the inmates walk away from prison. The Department of Corrections says their guard silenced an alarm on a door that Jeffery Kinartail walked out of. Just after midnight, an emergency head count was conducted and it came up one short…
LINK - WTHR.com Indianapolis
