Women Who Escaped From Prison

Gavin claimed that she fled the prison because inmates were being sexually harassed and raped by the guards. The prison became the center of a sex scandal in the 1990s, and many lawsuits were filed against it, claiming that guards were having sex with inmates. All of the women were eventually moved out in 1993, and the facility was transformed into a men’s prison. After Gavin revealed her reasoning for escaping the prison, many people wrote letters to the governor of Georgia demanding to let her live out of the rest of her life in Texas. Many people even wrote to the governor of Texas, asking him to help prevent the extradition of Gavin. There was also a lot of media coverage spreading a negative light over the Georgia Department of Corrections. They eventually decided to not pursue extradition, and the case was closed