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Inmate Escapes Lancaster Area Prison
Tuesday, February 21, 2012    
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Southeastern Correctional is a mainly minimum- and medium-security prison with about 1,500 inmates.

(AP) Police say an inmate who apparently escaped from a jail facility in southeast Ohio put socks on his hands to protect himself as he climbed a barbed wire fence.

Fairfield County Sheriff's Lt. Tim Voris said Tuesday that prisoner Jeremiah Searles was discovered missing shortly before midnight after a headcount at the jail near Lancaster.

Voris said the 31-year-old Searles was being held at the jail annex on local charges of obstruction, falsification, criminal trespass and possession of narcotics.

Voris said Searles was also being held on a Missouri warrant for deviant sexual assault.

A search by state and local police and local prison officials is continuing.