Four dangerous Alabama inmates escape correctional center; manhunt underway

In the quiet hours before dawn on a Saturday in central Alabama, four men charged with serious crimes — including murder — slipped away from a correctional facility in Uniontown, setting in motion a search that would draw multiple agencies and put an entire region on alert. The escape from the Perry County PREP Center, a facility operating under an interagency custody arrangement, raised immediate questions not only about where these men had gone, but about how they had managed to leave at all. As law enforcement mobilized and the public was warned to stay clear, the event served as a reminder