Source: United States Attorneys General
Headline: Federal Inmate Sentenced to More Than a Year in Prison for Escape
A man who escaped from custody at the Gerald Hinzman Center in June 2017 was sentenced on February 12, 2018, to more than a year in federal prison.
Gabriel Mangum, age 41, from Iowa City, Iowa, received the prison term after an August 24, 2017, guilty plea to one count of escape from custody.
At the plea hearing, Mangum admitted that, on June 20, 2017, he was in the custody of the federal government and imprisoned at the Gerald Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He further admitted that on that day he left the Gerald Hinzman Center to go to work, but did not return to the Center on that day. Mangum was later arrested by the United States’ Marshal Service on July 12, 2017.
Mangum was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade. Mangumwas sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. A special assessment of $100 was imposed. He must also serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
Mangum is being held in the United States Marshal’s custody until he can be transported to a federal prison.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lyndie Freeman and investigated by the United States’ Marshal Service.
Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
The case file number is 17-CR-56.
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