DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - Authorities say an inmate has escaped from prison facility in Alabama.
News outlets cite the state Department of Corrections as saying that 29-year-old Billy Harold Anderson III escaped Sunday morning at a work-release facility in Decatur. Authorities said on Monday that he was wearing plain street clothes rather than a prion jumpsuit.
Records show Anderson was sentenced to 18 months in December on a burglary charge from Lauderdale County.
Decatur is northern Alabama roughly 95 miles (150 kilometers) north of Birmingham.
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