Escaped inmate captured after being injured in hit-and-run 300 feet from Hawaiian jail

It wasn’t an ideal escape for this jailbird.

An inmate on the run was significantly injured in a hit-and-run as he fled down the freeway after scaling the razor-wire fence of a Hawaiian jail.

Matthew J. Ornellas Jr., 33, who was serving time within the Kauai Neighborhood Correctional Middle on a drug cost, allegedly escaped the power round 1 a.m. Friday morning and bumped into oncoming visitors on Kuhio Freeway.

Ornellas made it about 300 ft earlier than getting hit by a driver who fled the scene after making a U-turn, in keeping with police and native studies.

He’s hospitalized in severe situation in police custody whereas authorities seek for the driving force.

The Kauai Neighborhood Correctional Middle, which sits on the jap coast of the island, is a medium- and minimum-security facility. Ornellas was underneath minimal safety, in keeping with a spokesperson for the Hawaii Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The 130-bed lockup presents training, substance abuse therapy, spiritual, arts and work applications, in keeping with its web site, in addition to a Lifetime Stand Program, which supplies a “paramilitary routine of marching, drill workout routines, bodily coaching, training, and group outreach.”

A press launch from January famous the challenges posed by “the state’s getting old and inefficiently constructed correctional amenities” and an “incapability to treatment persistent security or safety issues.”

With Submit wires