BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Less than a week after a jailbreak by Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane, the convicted murder of a central Ohio girl and a third inmate from a state prison in Lima, authorities say they are searching for an inmate who escaped from a prison in Bowling Green.
Jhon Rosado, 24, escaped by going over a fence at the Northwest Community Correction Center in Bowling Green on Wednesday night, according to the sheriff’s office in Wood County.
Authorities say Rosado wearing a blue jump suit with an orange sweatshirt.
Security at Ohio prisons has come under scrutiny in the wake of last week’s escape in Lima, as well as the jailhouse suicides of Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro and death row inmate Bill Slagle last year.
Authorities said Lane, Lindsey Bruce and another inmate escaped by scaling a fence in a recreation yard at the Lima facility.
An initial incident report by the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says the guard who captured Bruce received stitches for minor injuries and Bruce received unspecified medical treatment.
The state still hasn’t explained in detail how Bruce, 33, and another inmate escaped, along with Lane, who was convicted of killing three students at Chardon High School in 2012.
Lane had a pitchfork with him when he was recaptured near a church a few hours later.