Work Release

charlestown@herald-mail.com SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - A 39-year-old Kentucky work-release escapee who was apprehended Monday in Shepherdstown remained at Eastern Regional Jail on $5,000 bond Wednesday afternoon, a jail spokeswoman said. Timothy Scott Carlisle initially was seen at a public boat ramp at the end of Princess Street, said Patrolman K.E. White of the Shepherdstown Police Department. Carlisle went to a house near the boat ramp and police responded to the house, according to White and court records.

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.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The Franklin County Probation Department this month unveiled a new tool in its attempts to track down probation and parole violators: A "most wanted" list on its Web site. "In the week we've had it up, we've already had two apprehended," Chief Probation Officer Rich Mertz said last week. One of the alleged violators was brought in on a citizen's tip, but the other was spotted by a probation officer at the county prison's work release annex, he said.

Fire destroys storage building at school CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Fire broke out Thursday afternoon in a storage building behind the Country Day School along W.Va. 51 in Jefferson County, a fire official said. A parent who was picking her child up at the private school, which is about three miles west of Charles Town, noticed the fire in the building at about 5:30 p.m., said school Principal Karen Stroup. By the time firefighters arrived, the building had burned to the ground, said Independent Fire Co. Chief Ed Smith.

pepperb@herald-mail.com A 56-year-old Hagerstown man who pleaded guilty in December 2004 to possessing child pornography was sentenced to six months in jail Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court. Victor Arvine Rowe, whose last known address was 140 E. Washington St., was sentenced to serve the six-month sentence at the Washington County Detention Center. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 20, 2004. According to charging documents, Rowe had ordered and received in April 2004 through the mail two videos: "Gym Time," a pornographic video with an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl, and "Sports Exam," a pornographic video with a 9-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl.

pepperb@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich has granted clemency to a Hagerstown man sentenced to life in prison for a 1977 felony murder conviction in connection with the death of a grocery store owner, according to a written release from Henry P. Fawell, a spokesman for the governor. Ehrlich on Friday conditionally commuted a life sentence to a fixed term of 50 years for Charles Terrell Walters Jr., 56, of Hagerstown, who was convicted in 1977 of felony murder, robbery with a deadly weapon, assault and use of a handgun in connection with the March 15, 1975, death of Charlie Hull, who was the owner of Hull's Store on Pope Avenue and Wilson Boulevard.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, PA. - The next big project at the Cumberland Valley Business Park could be a new $30 million prison for Franklin County. The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday authorized sending a nonbinding letter of intent to the Letterkenny Industrial Development Authority proposing the purchase of approximately 20 acres of land for a 445-bed prison. The authority, created by the county in the 1990s to manage surplus property from the realignment of Letterkenny Army Depot, owns the business park.

shappell@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Sgt. Terri Blair's work has paid off for many inmates at the Washington County Detention Center over the years in areas such as counseling, job training and even parenting tips. Now, that work has paid off for her as well, as Blair was named the state's top correctional officer by the Maryland Sheriff's Association. On Sept. 11, Blair was awarded the association's 2004 Correctional Officer of the Year for her contribution to the profession, said Washington County Sheriff's Department Capt.

pepperb@herald-mail.com Hagerstown Heat All-Stars cheerleading group founder Anna Miles was given a six-month jail sentence on Tuesday for writing $24,000 in bad checks drawn on the group's account. Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone III sentenced Anna Lois Miles to serve six months at the Washington County Detention Center for writing about $24,000 in bad checks in late 2003 and early 2004. If Miles, 31, whose last known mailing address was 1700 Burwood Court in Hagerstown, violates any of the conditions of a three-year probationary period, she could face a nine-year, six-month state prison sentence that the judge suspended.

tarar@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - An inmate serving 10 years for burglary at the Maryland Correctional Training Center stole a sport utility vehicle on Thursday while on work release at the Forty West Landfill and drove away, Maryland State Police in Hagerstown said. "He drove through a rear gate at the landfill and has not been seen since," Trooper 1st Class T. McDonough said. McDonough said police were looking for inmate Floyd Middlebrook, 33, who had been assigned to do miscellaneous jobs at the landfill off U.S. 40 near Huyetts.