Lansing inmate who escaped sentenced to nearly 11 more years

LANSING, Kan. (AP) – Trying but failing to escape from prison can get an inmate even more jail time.

A 32-year-old man who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility for about nine hours has been sentenced to nearly 11 additional years in prison.

Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said Dustin Frank Robinson escaped from the prison in July 2019 by climbing over a 20-foot fence that had two sections of barbed wire.

KCTV reports he cut himself on the wire and called 911 after feeling “woozy” from the cut.

Investigators later found him at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Thompson said authorities need to send the message that people who escape will face serious consequences.