By Robert Patrick
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
BENTON, Ill. — A former inmate of the federal prison camp in Greenville was sentenced Tuesday in federal court here to an additional 15 months behind bars for escape after being caught with liquor, cigarettes and gum off prison grounds.
Shelia B. Hatfield, 52, bought a bottle of whiskey, two bottles of vodka, fifteen packs of cigarettes, a lighter rolling papers and three packs of gum from a convenience store one and one-half miles from the camp, prosecutors said. All of the items are prohibited at the camp.
She did not have permission to leave, they said.
Prosecutors said Hatfield claimed that she was forced to buy the items “because of the abuse and harassment” from other inmates, but they said she’d never reported any of that abuse.
Hatfield was serving a 15-month prison sentenced for Social Security fraud at the time.
She pleaded guilty to the escape charge in January.
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