Date: Friday, September 29, 1995  
Source: By Andrew Fegelman, Tribune Staff Writer.   
Section: METRO CHICAGO  
Parts: 3  
Copyright Chicago Tribune

4 JAIL OFFICERS MAY LOSE JOBS IN INMATE ESCAPE   

   Cook County sheriff's officials plan to proceed Monday with negligence
charges against a sergeant and three correctional officers who face dismissal
because of their role in the escape of an accused killer.

   A sheriff's spokeswoman said that none of the four is suspected of
directly helping Robert Casillas and another inmate escape from Cook County
Jail Aug. 21.

   But among the allegations is that the sergeant doctored a log book to
cover up the fact he improperly placed Casillas on a jail work crew, reserved
for inmates accused of non-violent crimes.

   Casillas, 31, was awaiting trial for the Feb. 24, 1989, murder of a couple
in their Far North Side jewelry store when he escaped with a second inmate,
James Halloran, by climbing an electrical conduit pipe, then jumping off the
roof of the jail.

   Halloran was immediately captured.

   But Casillas remained at large for a month before he was tracked down in a
Houston suburb. He was returned to Chicago Wednesday where he faces a new
charge of escape. He is also awaiting a retrial for the 1991 fatal shooting
of a rival gang member.
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