According to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Jimmy Cannon was recaptured in Oconee County Feb. 21 during a routine traffic stop.
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office contacted the prison after Cannon’s outstanding warrant appeared in the National Crime Information computer, police said.
Prison officials verified the information on the database, and Cannon was transported back to Pickens County.
The second escapee, Ralph Ridley, was apprehended Monday in Grenada, Miss.
Police have accused Ridley of attempting to flee but say he was quickly arrested by law enforcement there. After his arrest, information in the NCIC was verified between the two jurisdictions.
Ridley is currently being held in the detention facility in Mississippi awaiting an extradition hearing before he can be returned to South Carolina, police said.
Your post in the Progress doesn't mention why these two men were in custody, nor whether they'd been convicted. In my opinion, our criminal justice system is a fatted calf that really needs to go on a diet. There are too many "crimes", too many cops, (assuredly) there are too many attorneys too many judges, too many courts, too many prisons, too many prisoners, etc., etc......Jesus said, "Let the first among you who has not sinned cast the first stone.....Hm....Who is the criminal, those two who were arrested, or those who judged them?