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MANSFIELD -- For those who work and live there, the county jail will feel a little roomier today.In less than two weeks, 20 corrections officers and more than 50 prisoners have departed because of budget-induced deputy layoffs. The entire top floor has been shuttered.

An inmate has been ordered to serve additional prison time after being found with a weapon.

HURON, SD - He got away barefoot and in handcuffs and a Beadle County inmate is still on the loose. Thirty-seven-year-old Michael James Smith ran when officers were bringing him back to the jail after a court appearance Thursday.

VACAVILLE — A state prison inmate who was mistakenly released is back in custody. Temporarily released after a bizarre odyssey between two state prisons and the Solano County Jail, 30-year-old state prison parolee Dante Rodgers is back where he belongs.

RED BLUFF, Calif.—Authorities are looking for an inmate who escaped from a minimum security firefighting camp in Northern California.

 PITTSBURGH -- An Allegheny County Jail inmate put the facility on lockdown Tuesday night after he went missing during a routine head count.

 An inmate at the Joe Corley Detention Facility remains in critical condition in a local hospital after being found by a guard hanging by the neck in a jail dorm room.

 Temporarily misplaced after a bizarre odyssey between two state prisons and the Solano County Jail, 30-year-old state prison parolee Dante Rodgers is believed to be back in custody.

Rodgers, who was supposed to have been released on parole in March, was held at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville after an alleged battery upon a non-prisoner, the Solano County District Attorney's Office reported.

 DILLEY — Officials today will resume their search for two inmates — one who killed a Harris County woman — who escaped Tuesday from a state prison near San Antonio.

 BURBANK, Calif.—Burbank police say a man arrested on suspicion of assaulting his wife has hanged himself in his jail cell.

A police statement says 60-year-old John Flores was arrested shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday on suspicion of assaulting his wife and a police officer and resisting arrest.

He was found hanging from a telephone cord in a cell at the Police Department shortly before 5 p.m. the next day. Paramedics couldn't revive him.

His death is under investigation.