LANSING, Mich., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The Michigan Parole Board has voted to release a woman who built a new life after escaping from a Detroit jail in 1976.
But the board said that Susan LeFevre must remain in the Huron Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti until May, The Detroit News reported. She has accumulated 11 citations for breaking prison rules since she was returned to Michigan last April, and the board said her release depends on having a better record as an inmate.
LeFevre escaped from the Detroit House of Corrections after serving about a year of a 10- to 20-year sentence for drugs. In California, she married and had three children.
The board voted unanimously to free LeFevre, 54, based on the life she had been able to build while she was free. She was married to an executive with a waste disposal company in San Diego.
"We're very, very happy," LeFevre's husband, Alan Walsh, told the News in a telephone interview. "We're just glad that it will soon be over."
