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Jul 24, 2008 6:45 am US/Central

Planned Prison Escape Was Year In Making

ST. PAUL (AP) ― An inmate at the Stillwater prison has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of trying to escape.
  
James Leroy Scott is already serving a life sentence for a 1991 murder conviction in Todd County.
  
According to a criminal complaint, Scott worked nearly a year on a scheme that eventually sprung him from his cell and nearly got him over the prison wall in 2007.
  
While other prisoners slept, Scott cut through two sets of bars and a fence and scaled a roof. He also used wood and power tools from the prison workshop to build a 20-foot-long platform he planned to use to reach from a third-floor window out over the prison wall.
  
Washington County Judge Susan Miles handed down the one-year sentence last week.

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