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Prisoner used flip-flop to open cell door
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="bottom"><STRONG><BIG>Prisoner used flip-flop to open cell door</BIG></STRONG></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><P>US sheriffs have launched disciplinary action after a prisoner escaped from a jail in Georgia by using his flip-flop to unlock the cell door.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ananova.com/img/AF21017F-5872-46FB-B025-CE0811B974E2" alt="Prison cell /Rex" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><P> Deante Gholston, 20, was recaptured the next morning and is now back in Bibb County jail on a new charge of escape as well as his original charge of armed robbery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><P> Sheriff Jerry Modena blamed a staff shortage, prison overcrowding and a defective lock for Gholston's unlikely escape, reports the Macon Telegraph.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><P> He said Gholston was one of five prisoners put into a holding cell to relieve overcrowding.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3557729.html?menu=news.quirkies"><P> "We were understaffed," he said, explaining the jail was operating with between six and eight fewer employees than needed at the time.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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