At least they won't be running very fast.
Two elderly prisoners, including a killer, lottery drove away from prison Wednesday in Ontario.
Authorities say the men are believed to have been picked up in a grey sedan around 1 p.m.
Jay Sedore, 70, and Michael Karas, 68, who escaped from Beaver Creek Institution in Gravenhurst on Wednesday, were both housed in the minimum-security area that has no perimeter fence.
"It's not like they had to jump a fence. They just went unaccounted for at the evening count," said Mike Shrider, regional communications manager for Correctional Service Canada, per orilliamatters.com
Sedore was service a life sentence first-degree murder.
He had been in prison for 34 years — since October 1991 — after a murder that took place in the Gravenhurst area in August 1990, said Shrider, per per orilliamatters.com
Karas is serving a 15-year, six-month, 10-day sentence for robbery, forcible confinement and use of an imitation firearm for crimes in December 2020.
"Typically, if they have worked their way down to minimum (security), they would have been deemed to be more trustworthy, more responsible, a lower security threat," Shrider told OrilliaMatters.
"On the minimum side, there is actually no perimeter fence and the inmates go in and out of the building for jobs around the institution. Most guys in minimum are working in the institution as cleaners or doing different programs."
