Convicted thief escapes from open-type prison in western Japan

Police put a 27-year-old man on a wanted list on Monday after the convicted thief escaped from a prison in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, in western Japan the night before.Tatsuma Hirao ran away from Matsuyama Prison's Oi shipyard -- a rare open-type prison facility in Japan -- on Sunday evening, and the police said he could have fled to Onomichi in Hiroshima Prefecture, as they have found a stolen car believed to have been used by Hirao near a bridge there.Hirao began serving his term at the shipyard last December. One of Japan's four prison facilities without perimeter walls, the shipyard has…READ FULL ARTICLE