Does anyone think that if someone escapes from jail and is found over 20 years later, that the person should go back to jail?  In the news the other day, I read about this woman who escaped from prison in 1976 and was recently caught. It’s like The Fugitive but kind of like if one of the housewives of Orange County was arrested. She claims the charges against her were drug related but that she wasn’t a dealer. Of course Michigan authorities are saying her story doesn’t add up. Shocker. I can imagine it would be difficult to go back to jail when you are 53 years old. I am sure she figured - what’s the harm? No one has caught me so I can just continue going on with my life but I just wonder how hard it was to keep a secret like that? Here is the article for anyone who is interested: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fugitive1-2008may01,1,2480068.story - hopefully you will be able to open it. If not, go to www.latimes.com and type in “woman going to prison for escaping jail time in 1976″.

In any event, the people in Michigan are saying she didn’t serve the appropriate amount of time in jail so she has to go back. There are consequences to your actions. She should have just served the time when she was 19, gotten out and now she wouldn’t have to be dealing with this.

Most people can’t stand lawyers but the truth is, who do you think the first person she called was after she told her husband? I am curious to see how it plays out but if Michigan goes by the letter of the law, she is going back to the slammer. 

The law is a strange bird and truly, the people practicing it are even stranger sometimes so there is definitely some attorney out there representing her and saying things like “she’s a model citizen”. But, it’s like my dad says, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”.