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Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — A boot camp inmate with less than three months left in his sentence could be facing an extended stay — in prison — after a short-lived escape ended in his arrest. "The crazy part is that the individual was going to be released in about 72 days," said Frank Bilecki, spokesman for the Cook County Sheriff's office. Jamall Allen, 20, was charged with residential burglary in September 2011 and pleaded guilty in October. Allen managed to avoid prison time when a judge sentenced him to the Cook County Sheriff's boot camp, a minimum security facility adjacent to the Cook County Department of Corrections complex at 2600 S. California. Authorities believe the non-violent offender scaled a barbed wire fence around 11 a.m. Sunday. But between 20 and 25 sheriff's officials searched for Allen and found him around 5 p.m. within a 5-mile radius of the boot camp. Allen might have traded a few hours of freedom for significant prison time. "If anyone violates a judge's order for boot camp, judges, my assumption is, do not take it lightly," Bilecki said. Copyright 2012 Sun-Times Media, LLC
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