A Clayton County Jail inmate is back in custody after escaping from authorities at a hospital, the sheriff’s office said
James Damonte Beasley became unaccounted for while at Southern Regional Medical Center, the sheriff’s office announced Saturday morning. Officials did not specify how Beasley escaped.
By about 12:35 p.m., authorities said he had been taken back into custody.
According to jail records, he was booked in March on a probation violation.
The escape occurred just over a month after another inmate was accidentally released from the jail.
In late March, a convicted murderer was released before he was transferred to prison, officials said at the time. Kathan Guzman had already been sentenced to life in prison for choking 19-year-old Delila Grayson to death in Clayton in August 2022.
The sheriff’s office discovered the mistake 12 days after Guzman was released from the jail, Sheriff Levon Allen said. The sheriff said the DA alerted him.
Guzman was eventually arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Florida.
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