In-feaking-credible. So in 1957 this guy runs over & kills a pedestrian, pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence. He then violates his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license and gets locked up in 02/59. He soon gets moved to an “honor camp” and goes missing on Sept. 30, 1959. He gets caught sixteen years later (1975) in West Virginia, but the governor there refuses to extradite him.

Never served any time for the manslaughter charge, escaped what time time he was supposed to serve in 1959, and never paid any restitution to his victim’s family. So a total of seven months and now he’s getting parole. WTF?

Ohio Board Grants Parole To Man Who Was a Fugitive for 55 Years

(COLUMBUS) — A man who disappeared from a prison camp in 1959 while serving time for manslaughter and was found in Florida last year should be released from custody, Ohio’s parole board decided Thursday. […]

The Summit County prosecutor’s office spoke out against parole Thursday, saying Freshwaters had changed his name, avoided accountability and never paid the restitution ordered for Flynt’s family. […]

After Freshwaters pleaded guilty to manslaughter, his initial sentence of one to 20 years in prison was suspended. He violated his probation by driving and getting a driver’s license, and, at 22, he was imprisoned in February 1959 at the Ohio State Reformatory, according to U.S. marshals and old court documents they provided. […]

He was first caught in West Virginia in 1975, but the governor refused to extradite him, concluding Freshwaters had a “flawless 16-year residency” there.

http://time.com/4238090/parole-prison-fugitive/