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Barren County Inmate Escapes Work Release

Barren County Detention Center

Police are looking for an inmate who walked away from a work detail Monday morning in Barren County. 

Amber Franks escaped near the Glasgow town square around 7:15 a.m.  Police say she may have been picked up by Jeffrey Franks, also known as Jeffrey Mitchell, and may be in the Olive Hill area of Carter County.  

Franks was last seen wearing an orange inmate shirt, gray pants, and pink tennis shoes.  She's described as  being 5'4", 140 pounds with strawberry blonde hair and hazel eyes.

Mitchell is described as a white man with shoulder-length hair and a sleeve tattoo on one of his arms.

Franks was being held for second-degree robbery. 

The award-winning news team at WKU Public Radio consists of Dan Modlin, Kevin Willis, Lisa Autry, and Joe Corcoran.
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