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According to ABC news On Friday , 26 year old Raymond Taylor of New York was arrested. The previous day he had been released by mistake from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center. Taylor was serving three life sentences for killing his ex girlfriend and two teenaged daughters, which he was convicted for in 2005. Unfortunately he was placed in a cell with another prisoner who shared similar characteristics with him. Taylor’s cellmate was being released from prison and instead, Taylor took his cell’s mate ID card. When being released he was asked to recite the ID number and he did, twice. The mistake was discovered when Taylor’s cellmate began kicking on the cell door and yelling, asking to be released. Taylor was arrested when he was found at his friend’s home in Martinsburg, W.Va. Doesn’t this make you think about how secure prisons and jails are? If it’s this easy for a prisoner to escape, how safe is the public? If this continues to happen there will be a lot of convicts on the loose, waiting to commit other crimes. Because of this incident prisoners will probably start thinking of more ways to escape with the knowledge that Raymond Taylor had.