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Man gets 15 years for prison break-in
Wed Mar 24, 2:31 pm ET

MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to break back into the jail where he had been held following his conviction in a manslaughter case, local media reported on Wednesday.

A judge sentenced Sylvester Jiles, 25, to the maximum 15-year penalty on Monday after his conviction earlier this year for the attempted break-in at the Brevard County Detention Center, the Florida Today newspaper said.

He apparently feared violent reprisals from family members of the manslaughter victim and suffered severe cuts when he tried scaling a 12-foot-high (3.65-meter) barbed wire fence to break into the jail.

The newspaper said Jiles had been released on probation from the jail a week before he tried to force his way back inside.

(Reporting by Tom Brown; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Wow...Break back inti jail..? Unreal...

I have read a few stories, not only from the United States, about people being released from prison and wanting to go in. It appears that all of them is because they can not make it on the outside. Some because they have become "institutionalised" but some because they can not make it financially and wind up hungry and homeless. Some even say that they are treated better on the inside than the outside.
Some of them purposely commit crimes to be sent back to prison. But I believe that this is the first one that I read that actually tried to break back in.