Four Escape From Privately Operated Prison

Mon., Feb. 12, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Four prisoners cut through a fence and climbed over razor wire to escape from a privately operated federal detention center, and two remained at large on Sunday.

One of the fugitives, Paul Lowe of Lowell, Mass., was considered extremely dangerous, police said.

Lowe was awaiting trial after he was arrested in December and accused of abducting a woman at gunpoint during a carjacking, driving her to New Hampshire and raping her.

Two escapees were captured near Attleboro, Mass., early Sunday, about 2-1/2 hours after their escape, Massachusetts police said.

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