The Escaped Convict Alert Program, known as E-CAP, sends wireless alerts automatically to smartphones — similar to an Amber Alert — and is geographically targeted to the area surrounding an escape.

Since our last story about jail escapes, another Oklahoma inmate escaped a facility in Hominy. 2 News is requesting records, policies and procedures to understand how criminals continue walking away.

ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including a murder suspect, commandeered a terrified Lyft driver’s car to reach south Florida before she was rescued and they were ...