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73 Year Old Heading Back to Jail 47 Years After Prison Break

By WDEF
Created Mar 11 2008 - 5:47pm


 [0]73 year old James Albert Morgan is headed back to prison after breaking out 46 years ago.

Police say Morgan burglarized a business in Chattanooga around 1960.

He got a three year term to the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville.

But just a year into that term.. He and two other inmates broke out.

Police say he rode a log down the Cumberland River.. Hitchhiked to Chattanooga and kept going south.

He lived in Florida for 14 years, but eventually returned to Tennessee.

Now more than 45 years later.. He was picked up in a crime sweep near Greenville.

He'll have to finish that three year term at Brushy Mountain.


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