...and nobody escapes, does anyone really care?

"Prison Bus, Getting Directions" courtesy of Flickr Contributor, hansntareen

If this had happened in Hollywood rather than North Bend, we imagine the details would have read a little differently. Yesterday morning a bus carrying 39 high-risk inmates broke down in a wooded area on I-90 near North Bend. The inmates were all being transferred to the Washington State Pentitentiary in Walla Walla.

Before crossing the pass, the bus driver pulled over for a scheduled stop and vehicle check. It was then that the bus suffered a mechanical failure. The inmates had to wait 2 hours for another bus to arrive to continue their transfer. Department of Corrections Officers called for back-up as soon as the bus broke down. Local sheriffs vehicles surrounded the bus, a state airplane gave aerial coverage, and a K-9 unit was brought in, just in case some of them decided to make a run for their freedom. No one did.