"Two men who fled an open prison and knocked on the door of another jail asking for a stricter regime will not serve extra time. Audie Carr, of Hereford, and Benjamin Clarke, from Gloucester, claimed Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire was "rife with drugs"...
Carr, 29, and Clarke, 23, fled Leyhill after requests to be transferred were declined. Giles Nelson, defending, said both had beaten drug habits after rehabilitation programmes at Gloucester Prison. "They were off drugs and concerned about what was happening to them at Leyhill," he said...
The pair were at large for 17 hours, having missed a roll call at 2030 BST on 9 March. They walked through the night and turned up at Gloucester Prison around 1250 BST the next day...
Judge Jamie Tabor QC agreed it was not in the public interest to prosecute the duo."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3769957.stmHow nice to see genuinely reformed people making an effort in their lives, and a judge recognising that their behaviour didn't require punishment.
If I were one of these guys I'd try to get as much press coverage as possible and use it to get a job.
Good work fellas!
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