Is Arizona the new West Virginia?

[Skew]

PHOENIX – An unattended campfire and a suspicious forest ranger led to the arrest of two of the most wanted fugitives in the U.S., ending a three-week nationwide manhunt that drew hundreds of false sightings, authorities said.

John McCluskey fled July 30 with two other inmates from a private prison in northwest Arizona and evaded authorities in at least six states before being caught Thursday evening just 300 miles east of the prison.

Authorities arrested McCluskey, 45, and his alleged accomplice Casslyn Welch, 44, at a campsite in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona.

Welch, who is McCluskey's fiancee and cousin, reached for a weapon but dropped it when she realized she was outgunned by a swarming SWAT team, said David Gonzales, U.S. marshal for Arizona.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100820/ap_on_re_us/us_inmate_escape

[Darth Biscuit]

So they went all over the country and then back to Arizona?

[Hairless Cat]

What the hey is a " private prison" ? Sounds like something jeffrey dahmer would have liked.