It's Thursday, September 14, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Well Americans are going to breathe a sigh of relief that escaped murdered in El Ocabalcante

was found finally yesterday, apprehended without a shot, by the way, in the state of Pennsylvania,

where he had been on the run for a matter of 13 days.

Now there's a lot to look at here for one thing, and every one of these stories, there's an

unfolding story. There's a story behind the story. The story behind this story has to do with the

fact that we obviously have security problems at this one prison, but in worldview terms we talked

earlier on The Briefing just days ago about the fact that when you're looking at someone serving

a life term, or perhaps even a more grave sentence such as the death sentence, that individual

has every reason to try to break out of prison. There is indeed, in this case, just nothing to lose.

Or at least that's their mental calculus, that's their moral calculation.

And so they are just about 24-7, at least some of them trying to devise ways in which they can

escape. And we talked about the income insurability about those who are trying to keep them in from

those who are trying to get out. And the fact is that those who are trying to get out will often

see an opportunity that no one trying to keep them in might see. Now in the case of the Pennsylvania

prison, it was clear that there was also an absolute failure of its policies, because even as

another inmate had tried to escape from the same area just a matter of a short time ago.

In this case, there was a full camera that was supposed to be watched by an observer by someone

in a guard tower, and you can simply look at the video. It's available on YouTube, and you can see

this man so-called crab walking this inmate, now a convicted murderer escaping from the prison.

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