WBAL.com

Maryland’s prison agency says it has suspended four correctional officers for negligence in the escape of a convicted murderer from a medium-security prison near Hagerstown.

The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services says two of the unidentified officers worked in observation towers at the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown.

The agency says inmate Kandelario Garcia-Ramos scaled two fences topped with razor wire in view of both towers.

The other two officers failed to detect Garcia-Ramos’s absence during two routine counts of inmates.

Garcia-Ramos escaped Jan. 17 and was captured five days later about six miles away from the prison.