Montgomery police looking for convicted murderer who left work center

Published 10:06 am Monday, December 24, 2018

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Police are looking for an Alabama inmate convicted of murder who left a work center over the weekend.

The Alabama Department of Corrections said that 47-year-old Jimmy Lee Hill escaped from the Red Eagle Work Center in Montgomery around 6 p.m. Saturday.

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Officials say he was wearing a white prison uniform when he left.

Hill was sentenced to life in prison for a murder conviction in Jefferson County in 1993.