Three people, including a fellow inmate, have been charged with aiding the escape, and officials are trying to determine whether anyone else at the prison was involved. “We never want that to happen again,” said Tumar Alexander, the city’s managing director A top city official said an “extensive” review of the prison and its operations is planned and called it “unfortunate” that nearby residents and the city at large weren't immediately warned. The men were gone for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing. He was stopped in a car nearby and arrested. Grant was arrested Thursday night after members of the same fugitive task force saw him leave a north Philadelphia home dressed as a woman. Officials have said the inmates were housed in the same unit, but different cells. Grant was being held on conspiracy drug and weapons charges. Hurst and Nasir Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center on May 7 by cutting a hole in a fence surrounding a recreation yard, the Philadelphia Department of Prisons has said.īefore the escape, Hurst had been held on four counts of murder. A listed number for Woods couldn't be found Wednesday and it's unclear whether he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. Also arrested was his brother, Amir Woods, 24, who was later charged with hindering apprehension, conspiracy, escape and other counts, police said. Clark said that when authorities at one of the locations saw Hurst get into a car with two family members, they arrested him. Authorities had been working with the family since Tuesday evening after they called seeking to have Hurst surrender, but several deadlines for that to happen had come and gone, Clark said.Īuthorities staked out several places where Hurst was believed to be hiding. PHILADELPHIA - A task force led by federal marshals recaptured the second of two inmates who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison earlier this month, a man who had been held on charges in four slayings, authorities said.Īmeen Hurst, 18, was rearrested Wednesday morning in Philadelphia, according to Robert Clark, a supervisory deputy with the U.S.

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