A Boston-area woman has now made her situation worse and her attorney’s job a lot more difficult.
Laura D., 23, (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) of Everett was being held in The Women in Transition program, a prerelease facility that provides help to 24 women who have committed nonviolent offenses and have drug and alcohol addictions. Unfortunately, she did not stay there. Instead, she escaped by jumping out the window.
Apparently, though, her freedom was short-lived.
According to Essex County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Paul Fleming, “At about 11:20 [October 16th] morning it was noticed that she was missing from Women In Transition,” Fleming said. “She was re-apprehended at about noontime in a cab heading south on Interstate 95, not far from the Route 1 exit. She was sent back to MCI-Framingham. She’s violated the opportunity to rehabilitate herself through the Women In Transition program.”
The Defendant had arrived at the program just days earlier from MCI-Framingham, where she had been serving a six-month sentence for possession of class B and class E substances. Had she not attempted to escape, her parole eligibility date would have been December 3rd, Fleming said. If she served her out her full six-month sentence, she would have been released on March 22nd.
And now?
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