A man who escaped from a minimum-security prison camp in Mendocino County early Sunday morning was taken into custody hours later by local deputies, authorities confirmed.
Donovan R. Bacon, 33, walked away from the Parlin Fork Conservation Camp #6 at approximately 7:35 a.m., according to a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. An emergency count confirmed his absence shortly thereafter.
Bacon was captured later the same day 40 miles from the prison camp at the Coyote Valley Reservation, Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall said.
“We received a phone call — the reporting party said they saw someone who looked like him,” Kendall told SFGATE. “They arrived on scene, confirmed it was him, and they took him into custody at the Coyote Valley station.”
Originally sentenced in San Bernardino County to six years for second-degree robbery with an enhancement for the use of a deadly weapon, Bacon had been housed at the Parlin Fork Conservation Camp since February 18.
Ya, when they walk away from fire camp they usually get picked up pretty quickly. Not too bright. Now he will never get to work outside of the walls again, and picked up another charge. Genius move.
It’s time to give those guys at the camps a raise! They work hard for less than peanuts and the fire captains treat them terribly. Sure he will get the short end now after going AWOL but he probably wasn’t expecting how bad Parkin Fork is. Improving conditions across the prison system is essential.
A retired Russian army officer told me the military prison inmates get officer food while there.
And Russian boo boo kitty kats after lights out!
Sounds like a pretty good place to do time.
Give them a raise? Ok if we charge them room and board. The guy was in prison for robbery not for being some boys out. I wonder if you would say this to his victim?
Enjoying the new escaped inmate masthead.