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Escaped killer from Jonesboro back in prison
A Jonesboro man who escaped from a Georgia prison while serving time for a 2004 killing is back in custody.
Richard Joel Jenkins, 26, was captured Monday evening in Washington County about five miles from Hancock State Prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The career criminal escaped from the prison in Sparta on Sunday.
Jenkins was serving a life sentence for killing Macon convenience store clerk Gopal Patel, 48, during a robbery at the V and R Food Store.
