ROGERSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) – The party’s over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail’s doors were accidentally left unlocked.
The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail.
The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said.
Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the booze ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store.
Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all.
“I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn’t be charged with escape,” Rimer said, “but they were wrong.”
The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits to go around.
sounds like something shaggy would do
:eek: :nuts: can’t say i’d have returned with the beer, i’d be at home celebrating that stupid jail warden’s mistake 
that is some funny shit. Ill be they dont get in trouble for it. I mean seriously, how mad could a judge possibly be if they CAME BACK. lol.
i would be more pissed at the idiot Guards than the prisoners …look there so dumb they came back
fuck, how could you be mad at them… if they went through all that trouble for beer… shit thats determination
that warden should be fired… whatta toolshed. how are you gonna let dudes escape, roll in, escape again, roll in again and get tanked. shit, that sounds like the stuff we used to do in highschool… drink in the basement, sneak out, and sneak back in. the inmates should be grounded for a week, the warden should get the lombardi slap
hell they should time away from there sentence from comming back qnd fire the warden and ll the guards