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Handcuffed inmate tries to swim to freedom

A handcuffed inmate escaped from a probation officer and was fished from the Yazoo Diversion Canal.

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said 21-year-old Jeremy Blake Bowlin got away from a Mississippi Department of Corrections probation officer outside the Warren County jail on Aug. 6.

Bowlin is on probation for two counts of auto burglary, according to court records. […]