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"Longtime fugitive mom freed from prison"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article that provides an update on a high-profile case that prompted interesting sentencing debates when it first made news.  Here are a few details: Susan LeFevre's first prison stretch 33 years ago was so scary that she decided to escape. Now, more than a year after her capture, the woman who changed her life to become a suburban mom in California is free again ? and this time her departure was legal. "It's been very traumatic. I didn't think I'd make it at times," LeFevre, 54, said of her second term behind bars, describing prison as a "very tragic" place. She was released Tuesday from the Huron Valley prison, south of Ann Arbor, and rode away in a car, a more comfortable departure than in 1976 when she climbed a fence at another prison to escape a 10-year sentence for a heroin deal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).