Escape • Attempt to Remove Oneself from Official Detention • Removal of Work Release Privileges as Punishment • Double Jeopardy
Commonwealth v. Waugaman, PICS Case No. 17-1224 (Pa. Super. July 13, 2017) Olson, J. (6 pages).
A work-release prisoner’s failure to go to work after being released to do so and having his whereabouts unknown for a majority of his absence from prison constituted a sufficiently significant deviation from the route of travel to constitute the offense of escape. Judgment of sentence affirmed.
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