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Turner sentenced for her part in helping jail inmate escape
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The girlfriend of a jail escapee will join her boyfriend behind bars for helping him in his run from the law, help that continued until she was arrested by his side by bounty hunters in Alabama three months after his escape.The girlfriend, Sherry Turner, 40, was sentenced to serve 180 days of a four-year sentence and must perform 25 hours public service work for facilitating felony escape in the case of George “Hondo” Pease, 32. She joins Josie Cooper, 40, mother of fellow escapee Marty Cooper and Joshua Phillips, who reportedly gave the escapees the clothes to change from their jail uniforms, behind bars. All three were given identical six-month sentences.