BY KYM LIEBLER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON -- Three inmates at the Community Correction Center are facing escape charges.
A Warren County grand jury indicted the men Friday, Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver said Monday.
Daniel Miller, 19, was sent to the center April 15 after he was convicted in Butler County Common Pleas Court of attempted extortion. He was caught 20 minutes after he allegedly jumped the fence around the center shortly after 10 a.m. May 2.
The other two inmates -- who went to separate Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and never returned to the center -- remain at-large.
The center, geared toward nonviolent criminals, opened in 1995 and attempts to rehabilitate inmates with substance abuse programs and vocational education classes.
The center serves Butler, Clermont and Warren counties and has the capacity for 100 inmates. There were 93 Monday.
The building is on Ohio 63 in Lebanon, across from two state prisons: Warren Correctional Institution and Lebanon Correctional Institution. Dennis M. Polster, 24, who was serving time for aggravated burglary out of Clermont County, disappeared April 2 after he went to an AA meeting in Clermont County, Mr. Oliver said.
Damien L. McKibben, 19, serving time for cocaine possession out of Butler County, also got away while attending an AA meeting. On May 28, Mr. McKibben attended an AA meeting in the Tri-County area. "He went to the bathroom and did not return," Mr. Oliver said.
Escape is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
