Elijah Palmer, a minimum custody risk inmate, escaped early Saturday morning from the Whetstone Unit at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson.
The release date for a former state lawmaker who represented part of Bartholomew County and is currently in federal prison for corruption has been moved up, according to federal records.
An inmate housed in a minimum-security Tucson prison has been detained after escaping early Saturday morning, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry.