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Article: Rapist Convicted of Escaping From Patuxent Halfway House; Inmate Was Given 6 Unsupervised Leaves
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- The Washington Post
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- May 18, 1989
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Convicted rapist James M. Stavarakas was granted six unsupervised
leaves before escaping from a Patuxent Institution halfway house in
November, a Maryland social worker testified yesterday.
Officials from the controversial state prison described
Stavarakas' life in a work-release program during a one-day court
trial in Howard County Circuit Court. Judge Raymond J. Kane Jr.
found Stavarakas guilty on a single charge of escape, which carries
a maximum 10-year sentence.
Stavarakas had been serving a 25-year sentence at the Patuxent
Institution in Jessup for a 1978 rape and was working out of a
Baltimore halfway house when he escaped. After his escape, he was
charged with raping a ...