Frank Freshwaters,79, was captured in May after escaping in 1959 from the Ohio state reformatory, and the prison immortalized in The Shawshank RedemptionThe man known to many simply as the Shawshank fugitive” for his 56 years on the run from an notorious Ohio correctional facility was cleared for release by a parole board this week.
Frank Freshwaters,79, escaped from the Ohio State Reformatory in 1959, and after serving two years for parole violation in a manslaughter case. The reformatory was later immortalized as the filming location for the 1994 drama The Shawshank Redemption,starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
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Source: theguardian.com