Man who killed landlord walks away from Edmonton prison
Ben Gelinas, edmontonjournal.com [Alberta]
Published: Saturday, November 29, 2008
EDMONTON – A 39-year-old man in jail for the second-degree murder of his landlord walked away from a minimum-security Edmonton institution Friday night.
James Gordon Wrigley was reported missing around 9:30 p.m. from the 30-bed Grierson Centre downtown, the Correctional Service of Canada said.
Wrigley was sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for strangling his 66-year-old landlord, Kwong Mah, in Calgary.
During the trial, court heard that Wrigley killed the landlord in order to steal his van.
At the time, Wrigley was a 23-year-old crack cocaine user who had committed a series of convenience store robberies with a friend to feed their addiction.
The pair jumped the landlord after luring him to a rented townhouse in September 1993. Wrigley’s friend tied the landlord’s hands while Wrigley wrapped a telephone cord around the landlord’s neck.
The body was stuffed into a closet and discovered a day later by the landlord’s son.
Wrigley is now unaccounted for, and police are asking anyone who may see him to call them.
He is described as five feet six inches tall, about 177 pounds, with a fair complexion, green eyes and brown hair.
The circumstances that led to his escape will be reviewed, Corrections said.
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Again? Another inmate escapes from a Saskatchewan correctional centre
TheStarPhoenix.com
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Another inmate has escaped from a provincial correctional centre.
The Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing sent out a news release just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday saying 30-year-old Chastity Rosali Desjarlais slipped away during an escorted absence into the community.
Desjarlais, who sometimes goes by the name Chastity Kahnapace, was a low-security inmate at Pinegrove Correctional Centre near Prince Albert.
Corrections spokesperson Judy Orthner said Desjarlais was with her escort in an office waiting room mid-afternoon on Tuesday when she snuck away.
Desjarlais was serving a sentence for robbery, resisting and obstructing a peace officer, assaulting a peace officer, and failure to comply with court-ordered conditions.
Orthner did not know when the crimes occurred, or how long Desjarlais has been in custody.
Corrections officials say anyone who knows Desjarlais’ whereabouts should not approach her, and should contact police immediately.
The escape is another snafu in a string of recently publicized mistakes in the province’s corrections system.
Twice in October, employees accidentally released prisoners from courthouses when they were meant to head back to jail.
In August, six inmates escaped from the Regina Correctional Centre by smashing through a brick wall.
In addition, a Big Head First Nation man, Kyle Dufresne, was accidentally kept in jail for six months this year even though he had been sentenced to just 45 days in jail.
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