{"id":3256,"date":"2016-04-13T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/inmate-escaped-from-top-floor-at-rjc-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T03:15:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:15:41","slug":"inmate-escaped-from-top-floor-at-rjc-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/inmate-escaped-from-top-floor-at-rjc-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate escaped from top floor at RJC in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The jail inmate who briefly escaped from King County\u2019s <a title=\"map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Maleng+Regional+Justice+Center\/@47.3849657,-122.2380193,2659m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x5ce989a76440ed3b\" target=\"_self\">Maleng Regional Justice Center<\/a> Tuesday in Kent ran all the way from the fourth floor to get outside.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kenneth William, in court to enter a plea for stealing a vehicle, ran from Courtroom 4H once his handcuffs were removed as he prepared to face the judge, according to a Wednesday email from William Hayes, county director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>County corrections officers pursued William, dressed in a jail red jumpsuit, but he exited the RJC before <a title=\"story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/375439411.html\" target=\"_self\">Kent Police caught him <\/a>about five minutes later a few blocks down Fourth Avenue near West Meeker Street.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWe are thankful that no one was injured and especially thank the Kent Police for their assistance in this matter,\u201d Hayes said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The investigation into how William managed to get out of the building continues, Hayes said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cWe will evaluate our current practices and polices specific to this incident,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is unknown if we will make any changes at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The RJC houses a county jail as well as King County Superior courts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jail inmate who briefly escaped from King County\u2019s Maleng Regional Justice Center Tuesday in Kent ran all the way from the fourth floor to get outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}