The female warden ran away with the inmate

West Sentence: Arrested, female warden commits suicide

CNN on May 10 reported that a female warden in the state of Alabama committed suicide when being rounded up while running away with 1 prisonerin the case caused a stir in the US.

Warden Vicky White (56 years old) did not survive at the hospital, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a car chase by authorities in Evansville (Indiana state).

“Casey White has been arrested,” said Rich Singleton, sheriff of Lauderdale County in Alabama, referring to the 38-year-old inmate who ran away with warden Vicky White (56).

The couple Vicky White and inmate Casey White (38 years old) are said to have a romantic relationship. Their car crashed after the chase, before the prisoner surrendered.

Vicky White is a warden with a clean record suspected of helping criminal Casey White escape from custody on April 29 on her last day of work before retiring.

Inmate Casey White was repeatedly “searched” and was sentenced to 75 years in prison for many crimes, including kidnapping, theft and attempted murder.

The inmate also faces charges of murdering victim Connie Ridgeway in the 2015 hit-and-run murder and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

Investigators say Vicky White sold her home a few weeks before fleeing and withdrew about $90,000 in cash from several banks in the area. Authorities when searching said that Vicky White had dyed her hair black and was 30 cm shorter than inmate Casey White.

Female warden Vicky White and inmate Casey White.

Law of Ta:

Crime of escaping from a place of detention

With the escape of detention, if according to the provisions of the criminal law of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the male inmate has committed the crime of Escape from detention and custody as prescribed in Article 386 of the Penal Code 2015, amending and supplementing supplement in 2017.

Escaping from custody is a dangerous act for social order and safety; safety and security of the people; That’s because the behavior is done by those who are serving punishment, who may not have been converted.

It is necessary to distinguish escaping from detention from escaping from isolation. Escaping from a place of detention or custody is understood as an act of a person being detained or detained who has used all means to escape the management and supervision of the responsible person in an illegal manner.

Detainees, detainees, persons being held in custody or temporary detention or being held to serve punishments in prisons, labor camps or re-education camps.

The place of detention or detention may be a detention house, a prison, a labor camp to re-educate prisoners.

The tricks used may be to take advantage of the guard’s loopholes, manage and escort them, and then sneak away from the place of detention or custody, on the way to being escorted or at the trial; deceive the guard, explain (such as pretending to have a stomachache, ask the conductor to urinate and then run away…) or use force to paralyze the guard’s resistance, lead the escort to escape.

Regarding penalties, Clause 1, Article 386 stipulates: Those who are being held in custody, temporary detention, escorted, tried or served a prison sentence but escape, shall be sentenced to between 6 months and 3 years of imprisonment.

If the crime is organized, the offender can be imprisoned for 3-10 years.

While being surrounded, the female warden committed suicide. If she doesn’t commit suicide, she will face the charge of “lack of responsibility” to let people who are arrested, people held in custody or temporary detention, or people serving prison sentences escape as prescribed in Article 376 of the Penal Code.

Irresponsibility for the detainee or detainee to escape is understood as the act of the person directly managing, guarding and escorting the detainee or detainee without implementing or inadequately implementing regulations on management and surveillance. guard and escort the detainees to escape.

The objective side of this crime is that there is an act of failure to perform or do not comply with regulations on management, guarding and escorting of detainees, such as not counting prisoners when they enter the cell; let the prisoner out of the cell without the permission of the warden, when escorting the accused without close supervision; leaving the guard post at the prison to hang out… leads to detainees escaping from detention or escaping while being escorted.

Serious consequences are the basic constituent of this crime. The serious consequences that can be caused by letting the detained person escape has caused many people to be detained and arrested before escaping, causing investigation and prosecution. The delay in the trial has adversely affected the security and order situation in the locality.

The female warden’s behavior violated the detention and escort regime and violated the normal operation of competent agencies in managing, guarding and escorting detainees and detainees.

The subject of this crime is a special subject. Those are the people who are assigned the task of directly managing, guarding and escorting detainees and detainees, such as: superintendent, deputy superintendent of custody house, deputy detainee house, prison officers, officers, combatants. officer of the armed forces.

Regarding penalties, the penalty level for this crime is divided into 3 frames: Frame one is punishable by non-custodial reform for up to 3 years or imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years for the following cases: be temporarily suspended; A fugitive takes revenge on procedure-conducting persons and procedure participants; The fugitive continues to commit less serious crimes or serious crimes…

Committing the crime in one of the following circumstances, the offenders shall be sentenced to two to seven years of imprisonment: Letting the person committing the very serious crime escape; Causing adverse effects on security, social order and safety…

More seriously, if the offenders are allowed to escape, the offenders may be sentenced to between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment.

In addition to being subject to one of the main penalties mentioned above, the offenders are also banned from holding certain posts for 1 to 5 years.