STERLING, COLO. -- Colorado prison officials are holding a community meeting in Sterling to discuss the escape of an inmate from a maximum-security prison there.
Department of Corrections Director Ari Zavaras and other department executives will attend the meeting Tuesday night on the campus of Northeastern Junior College.
Forty-eight-year-old Douglas Alward was serving time for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and burglary when he escaped on Aug. 22. Officials haven't said how.
He surrendered three days later at a home near Yuma, where he had been holding a woman hostage. Authorities said the hostage was well but released no other details.
It was Alward's fourth escape.
He has been placed in solitary confinement at another Colorado prison.
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