Minimum Security Inmate Walks Away

(Manchester, N.H.) The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports that a minimum security inmate has walked away from the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester. On August 6, 2008 at approximately 2:30 p.m., inmate Jason Kinney, 34, of Hudson, left the facility to go to work and failed to show up. After a preliminary investigation he was placed on walkaway status.

Inmate Kinney is a white male, 5’-5” tall, 170 pounds, with short brown hair and hazel eyes. He has multiple tattoos on his upper left and upper right arms, left and right forearms, right calf, right thigh, back, and neck. He is serving sentences for multiple robbery convictions from Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua. He was admitted to the New Hampshire State Prison following a probation violation on June 19, 2007 and will complete his sentences on June 29, 2010.

Security procedures aimed at apprehension have been initiated. The New Hampshire State Police and NH DOC are investigating. Anyone with information about this individual should call local law enforcement authorities.

Apprehended August 7, 2008