Alabama Department of Corrections locates fugitive in Brundidge

Hadley Hitson, Montgomery Advertiser
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Three men died within days of each other in Bullock Correctional Facility.

Alabama Department of Corrections officials began searching for an inmate who went missing from the Elba Community Work Release Center early Friday morning. By late afternoon on Friday, law enforcement located him.

ADOC investigators said Jonathon Lamar Bundy, 30, escaped from the minimum-custody facility in Coffee County at around 5:20 a.m. He seen on Friday wearing a brown khaki state uniform and traveling on foot in Brundidge, about 30 miles from the facility, according to a news release from Central Alabama CrimeStoppers.

Law enforcement officials said he was back in custody by 3:14 p.m.

Bundy is serving a 22-year sentence for first degree theft of property.

Hadley Hitson covers the rural South for the Montgomery Advertiser and Report for America. She can be reached at hhitson@gannett.com. To support her work, subscribe to the Advertiser or donate to Report for America.

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