The California mother who was arrested three decades after authorities say she escaped a Michigan prison pled guilty to an escape charge Tuesday. In doing so, Susan LeFevre will be sentenced on Sept. 24 in Wayne County, Michigan.
LeFevre was returned to Michigan earlier this year after authorities were tipped off to her whereabouts. The 53-year-old was married and had raised a family with her husband in San Diego.
LeFevre is presently serving at least 5 1/2 years of what was left on her original sentence in Michigan for selling heroin more than 30 years ago.
Authorities claim LeFevre had only served about one year of a 10- to 20-year sentence before scaling a prison fence in 1976 and starting a life on the run.
One group of prisoners will now have an opportunity to practice safe sex while in jail.
A new pilot program that offers free condoms for prison inmates is nearing completion. The Solano State Prison in Vacaville is installing 10 condom distribution machines to be filled with 1,200 condoms a week. The idea according to prison officials is that the condoms will minimize the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among inmates.
Technically, it is against the law for inmates to have sex, and state officials said that won't change. Just now, those who do take the chance will be a little more protected.
And the best thing of all, officials say no taxpayer money will be used for the program.
Although she 'served' a tougher sentence than fellow celebs Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, Hollywood socialite Khloe Kardashian is free at last. That is after serving just barely three hours in jail on Friday.
Kardashian, accompanied to the slammer with her family in tow, served just 173 minutes of a possible 30-day sentence for violating her probation on a drunk driving charge.
Kardashian, 24, the youngest of the famed sisters who star in their own reality show, was procssed into the Lynwood jail for women early Friday and was a free woman in time to make Happy Hour.
Due to overcrowding issues at the prison, Kardashian is once again a free woman, though she is required to sign up for alcohol treatment classes within three weeks of today's release.
A San Diego mother who was sent back to Michigan to complete a prison sentence after walking out of jail more than 30 years ago is seeking a new sentence.
The lawyers for Susan LeFevre, 53, a mother of three, claim she received an illegal and improper sentence of 10 to 20 years after pleading guilty to heroin charges back in 1974. The lawyers say that all heroin offenders got the same sentence back then, a "secret" policy. Her attorney said such a policy was later deemed illegal by Michigan's Supreme Court. The claim was filed in a Michigan court yesterday.
The law caught up with LeFevre, who escaped a Michigan cell back in 1976, earlier this year in Carmel Valley.
LeFevre had been living under the identity of Marie Walsh. She was married to a doctor and raising three girls.
Although she was not in attendance, voices to release prisoner Susan Atkins from jail were heard on Tuesday.
California parole officials were meeting today to consider releasing the gravely ill follower of Charles Manson before she succumbs to brain cancer.
Atkins, who has been in prison for 37 years, was convicted along with other followers of Manson's for the 1969 cult killings of actress Sharon Tate (pictured to left) and six others.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that despite Atkins' condition, she should not be released from prison.
Her doctors and officials at the women's prison in Corona made the compassionate release request last March because of her deteriorating health. Doctors gave Atkins, who has been denied parole 11 times, less than a year to live.
Atkins has reportedly cost the state more than $1.4 million in medical bills alone since March.
Editor's note: Atkins was denied parole for the 12th time on Tuesday.
The California mother who was arrested three decades after authorities say she escaped a Michigan prison pled guilty to an escape charge Tuesday. In doing so, Susan LeFevre will be sentenced on Sept. 24 in Wayne County, Michigan.
