Convict from Florida escapes, captured in Georgia

<p>A man imprisoned for killing his girlfriend in Sarasota County escaped from a work camp and was on the run about two hours before being captured in south Georgia, officials said.</p><p>James D. Tinnell, 52, got out through a basketball-sized hole in a fence at the River Junction Work Camp on Sunday, said Debbie Buchannan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections.</p><p>He was tracked down by DOC dogs and captured while running through the woods off a dirt road just over the border in Georgia, about two miles from River Junction, Buchannan told the Jackson County Floridan.</p><p>Tinnell was serving convicted of manslaughter in the August 2001 death of his girlfriend. He was sentenced in April 2002 to 15 years.</p><p>Buchannan said Tinnell was never assigned to a work detail at River Junction and likely would never be returned to that prison camp or any other medium-security facility.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2868214)</p>

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