Women Who Escaped From Prison

Judy Lynn Hayman

Judy Lynn Hayman was 23 when she escaped from the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. She was about halfway through a 16-month to two-year prison sentence when she escaped in 1977. She was in prison for attempting to steal women’s clothing from a Detroit-area store. Police in San Diego captured Hayman 37 years later, after Michigan police tipped off the department in San Diego. She had changed her name in 1983 and was now known as Jamie Lewis. She sat in a San Diego jail while awaiting extradition to Michigan, where local authorities wanted her to complete her sentence for larceny. Hayman fought her extradition, and her lawyer claimed that her client surrendered to authorities in 1982. Court documents proved that she was telling the truth, and the judge sentenced her to time served, meaning that she’s a free woman.