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Thursday 6 December 2012

Texas Inmate Search

The Clovis, New Mexico jail break refers to a August 24, 2008 jail escape from the Curry County Adult Detention Center.Eight inmates, all charged with violent crimes, broke out of the Clovis, New Mexico jail by climbing up plumbing pipes in a narrow space inside a wall and using handmade instruments to cut a hole in the roof near a skylight. The process took about seven hours, and the escape was the culmination of several days of planning. The inmates gained access to the pipes by stealing a key left in a door lock while jail guards were making plumbing repairs. Three inmates were recaptured within one day after the escape, and a fourth was caught on August 28. Larry McClendon, Jr., who was charged with shooting a store clerk to death and was considered one of the most dangerous escapees, was captured in Texas on October 4; his childhoodfriend, Michael England, was captured nine days later. Oneinmate,EdwardSalas,wascapturedinOctober2012. He was convicted of murdering a 10-year-old boy.