Escaped Colo. inmate believed to be in state
STERLING, Colo. (AP) — An inmate who escaped from a maximum-security prison in northeastern Colorado has managed to get away three previous times.
Forty-eight-year-old Douglas J. Alward remained at large Tuesday, two days after fleeing the Sterling Correctional Facility.
Officials say he escaped from another prison in 1980 by running from a prison bus with an inner tube and jumping into the Arkansas River. He was captured as he floated in the river.
Another time, Alward escaped through a hole in a prison kitchen wall. In 1991, he escaped during a court appearance after overpowering a guard.
Alward would have been eligible for parole in October and had worked his way to a classification considered just below minimum risk.