50 YEARS AGO: A Clallam County inmate who broke out of the state reformatory in Monroe on Aug. 7 has been caught in California, reformatory Superintendent Ernest Timpani said.
Timpani said 19-year-old ¬Dewayne Emmett Dunlap, who was serving a sentence for second-degree burglary in Clallam County, was arrested in Fresno, Calif., under the name of Emmett Cameron.
An FBI check of his fingerprints led to his identification as Dunlap.
Dunlap/Cameron was charged in California for forgery and automobile theft, Timpani said, and is now in custody in San Francisco.
Paperwork is being filed so he can be returned to Washington after the California action is completed.
25 YEARS AGO: A Seattle contractor, Howard S. Wright Construction, was the apparent low bidder at $27.566 million to build the 500-man Clallam Bay prison.
Construction of the 272,000-square-foot, medium-security institution is to start in October and is expected to take 21 months to complete.
Amos Reed, chief of the Department of Corrections, noted that the apparent low bid is $4.6 million lower than state estimates.
Reed said construction is especially important in light of Gov. John Spellman’s announcement this week of a special commission to study overcrowding in state penal institutions.
State prisons are now running at 131 percent of capacity.
