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A federal judge on Tuesday gave Toby Young a 27-month prison sentence for her role in helping a Lansing Correctional Facility inmate escape last year.
"I sincerely hope you have learned a lesson from this," U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum told Young. "What you did could've led to far more tragic results."
Young - a dog-handler who ran a prison program - helped John M. Manard escape from Lansing Correctional Facility in February 2006 by hiding him inside a dog crate in a van she used for a dog-training program at the prison.
The two were captured nearly two weeks later in Tennessee.
Young was sentenced to 21 months in state prison after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting aggravated prison escape and introducing contraband into the prison. She pleaded guilty in March to the federal charge of knowingly providing a firearm to a felon.
Lungstrum said Young's federal sentence could run at the same time as her state sentence - meaning Tuesday's ruling will add six months to her imprisonment. After that, she will be under supervised release for three years.
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Solomon (anonymous) says…
You give a convicted murderer a gun, help him escape prison, then help him evade capture, and you get less than 3 years in prison.
Get caught with a fairly small amount of drugs and you could be looking at 10 years.
Justice? I don't think so.
Jclarkson (anonymous) says…
You can run a dogfighting operation in a house that you bought and finance everything, plus hang and drown dogs....but only go to jail for up to 5 years.
The justice system just isn't right sometimes.
Lock this woman up for 25.
senegal66025 (anonymous) says…
Give her a break. I think she was a lost soul swept by a very good con. She made an idiot out of herself and will do three years for it. But after that give her a little compassion. Nobody got hurt which is lucky for her. Under the circumstances let the woman go back to taking care of dogs. They are much more trustworthy than people.
justtired (anonymous) says…
who says nobody got hurt--what about her family and the fear others felt when this inmate was at large. her family is the most important thing here. she will be free to move on and visit her boyfriend and continue her shame.
matahari (anonymous) says…
You can run a dogfighting operation in a house that you bought and finance everything, plus hang and drown dogs:.but only go to jail for up to 5 years. eh? In mexico they get moved up in status to "dons"
I don't understand, is this the same person of whom you are speaking?
If not, what does one have to do with another???
So, she's a comassionate person~if she'd have been really smart she would have trained her dogs to alert her when cops were around...but , ya know, they all get their laundry done the same place!.....
PS If' 'she'd been a 'he' the sentence would have been three times as much