Work Release

A work release inmate who failed to return from a work release program on Oct. 1 was recaptured early Friday by Washington County Sheriff's deputies. Joseph Dempsey Feiser, 19, was being held in the Washington County Detention Center without bond Tuesday. A Hagerstown native, Feiser was serving 18 months for burglary when he took off. First-degree escape charges have been lodged against him, court records said. Feiser was charged with burglary in a Jan. 19 break-in at a Williamsport home in which items valued at more than $11,000 were taken, Maryland State Police said.

A work release inmate from the Maryland Correctional Training Center ran away from his work-release job Friday morning, but later was captured and returned to MCTC, according to Maryland State Police press release. James William Young, 34, was assigned to a work detail at the County Commuter bus station at West Washington Street and Devonshire Road, police said. Young fled from his job about 10:30 a.m. when a Division of Correction employee confronted him about a conversation he had with a woman in a car, police said.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A committee formed by the Franklin County Prison Board will look in upcoming months at a number of ways to relieve crowding. cont. from news page The capacity of the main prison and work release annex is 324, but holding that many inmates requires having two or three prisoners in some cells, Warden Ray Rosenberry said in April. At the Prison Board's monthly meeting Thursday, Deputy Warden John Eyler said the daily average in May was 310 prisoners, with the population hitting 321 on May 25. The average daily population in 1999 was about 280, Eyler said.

MCTC inmate who walked off work release recaptured in Hagerstown Maryland state troopers this morning apprehended a Maryland Correctional Training Center inmate who walked off from his work release position at Nick's Airport Inn, troopers said. The walk-off was reported Tuesday at 11:50 p.m., troopers said in a news release. Correctional officers reported the inmate, Matthew Chestnut, missing after they arrived at the restaurant to transport him back to MCTC south of Hagerstown.

A Waynesboro, Pa., man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly a year in jail for causing a Feb. 12, 2011, crash that killed two people in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. Shawn Tyler Lacasse, 27, entered a no-contest plea to a homicide by vehicle charge in the death of 64-year-old Ernest B. Angle of Waynesboro. By entering the plea, Lacasse acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to gain a conviction at trial. Franklin County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas Judge Shawn Meyers sentenced Lacasse to 11 1/2 months in Franklin County Jail.

Letter to judge- 'I've changed' By KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI / Staff Writer Just a year ago, one of four men charged Tuesday in the beating death of a West Virginia man was serving time at the Washington County Detention Center and vowed to turn his life around. James Wellington Tosten, 22, was charged Tuesday with first-degree and second-degree murder in the death of Tony Lee Carbaugh, 18, of Spencer, W.Va. and 314 Buena Vista St., Hagerstown. Carbaugh was beaten in a dispute over drugs and left to die from head injuries near Kemp's Mill Road in Williamsport Saturday, according to court documents.

Fire in locker causes $50 in damage at MCTC The Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office was investigating the cause of a Saturday morning fire inside a locker at the Maryland Correctional Training Center on Roxbury Road, south of Hagerstown. The fire was discovered by a correctional officer and an inmate at 11:03 a.m. Saturday inside a metal locker in the state prison’s work-release unit, the fire marshal’s office said in a press release Monday. The fire was controlled within five minutes and caused about $50 worth of damage, the press release said.

Medical costs are piling up among prison lifers To the editor: So the June 2 edition of The (Baltimore) Sun reports a $100-plus million medical contract for prisoner health care, quoting Comptroller William Donald Schaefer as outraged over the expense? Please! And how ironic, since he helped generate the expensive growth. Allow me to explain. As a lifer on work release, I had Blue Cross/Blue Shield through my employer, Tate Access Floors in Jessup, Md., now in Red Lion, Pa. And this is the 12th anniversary of the day, June 2, 1993, when Gov. Schaefer removed all lifers from work release.