{Mount Olive, West Virginia}...Convicted murderers 23 year old Stephen Wilson, 26 year old Daniel Smith and 38 year old Bobby Lowe, three inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex in Fayette County, are separated from the general inmate population following a failed escape attempt Tuesday night. Wilson and Smith murdered Huntington pastor Mark McCalla four years ago while he was at a shooting range. Lowe fatally beat a man at a motel in Kanawha County in 2003 and stuffed his body in a garbage can. Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein says one inmate was spotted by a yard perimeter officer, and, within a half-hour, all three were apprehended. Rubenstein says there's an internal and State Police investigation underway to try to determine what happened that allowed the inmates to walk away from where they were supposed to be. There's never been an escape from the maximum security prison since it replaced the old Moundsville State Prison in 1995. Rubenstein says the 83-acre facility has a number of fences and security devices and usually planned escapes are caught much earlier by the prison's internal affairs operation. Rubenstein says other parts of the prison were secure during the incident and at no time was the community in danger.
