By C1 Staff
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Corrections officers at the Muskegon Correctional Facility are being praised for foiling an inmate’s planned escape before he had a chance to put it into action.
MLive reports that an officer making rounds Wednesday morning in the prison yard discovered a prisoner’s uniform painted black inside of a trash receptacle. The uniform led him to Patrick Daniel, an inmate serving two life sentences for murders in 2001 and 2002.
Due to good behavior, Daniel was placed in an ‘honors’ unit,’ where he had access to the items officers say he used to plan his escape.
Those items include a two homemade maps of West Michigan, a homemade compass, and two homemade flashlights; prison fatigues painted white, clothing, packaged food and a homemade yarn rope stuffed in a duffel bag that had been altered into a backpack; and other items that could have been used as weapons.
The weapons were discovered in a cache in a prison auditorium.
Daniel was placed in segregation after the discoveries were made, and the investigation continues.