No, it is not a plot from the next crime tv series or a Hollywood movie, but what happened with a Flordia woman, Paula Eileen Carroll. On July 18, 1975 she was sentenced to 5 years at Florida Correctional Institution — now Lowell Correctional Institution — in Ocala on the charges of theft. She and fellow inmate escaped on September 3 1975. The other inmate was quickly captured. Paula assumed the identity of of a living woman in West Virginia.

Acting on an anonymous tip, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office quietly arrested Carroll at 9 a.m. Tuesday, her 56th birthday, outside the Melbourne home where she has lived since 1986, according to property records. As her alias, Carroll used the name and Social Security number of a living woman in West Virginia.”We thought we knew her good. Then this happens,” said Joe Massimini, who lives three houses down Albert Drive from Carroll’s home. “The way she helped people, I never thought this would be possible.” In 1975 Paula Eileen Carroll was sentenced to five years in a Florida prison on charges of theft. Carroll, 21 Source: www.floridatoday.com

She is supposed to finish the remainder of her sentence and any additional sentence due to the escape.

It does make you think about the main reason for prison time. Is it as a punishment or something to keep you away from society till you can reform. If it is the later, then she should be given a shorter sentence.