Overview
- Nelson County officials say inmate Jerry Nation walked away from a jail work detail near Wire Lane in Bardstown during a trash pickup assignment.
- Nation had been serving a one-year sentence with a planned November release and now faces additional escape-related charges that could add up to five years.
- Officials have not disclosed what offense originally put Nation in jail.
- In a separate case, Jawan McKnight escaped during a transfer to the county jail after getting out of a transport car, and he is wanted on multiple drug-related charges with warrants in Nelson and Shelby counties.
- Authorities ask anyone with information to call 911 and to avoid approaching either man.