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LOS LUNAS (AP) — An inmate serving four con current life sentences for murder remained at large today after failing to report back to Corrections Department authorities from a work-release pro gram. Corrections Department spokesman David Roybal said Riley Ivan Gillihan, 53, an inmate at the minimum - security Los Lunas prison, was not at a designated pickup point Saturday at 5:45 p.m. Cor rections Department of ficials were unable to locate Gillihan’s employer until 10 p.m. to determine the inmate was missing, Roybal said. He said the employer told authorities he had left Gillihan at the pickup point earlier Saturday. Roybal said Gillihan, who entered prison on Oct. 1, 1968, was employed by a construction company working in the Tijeras area. Roybal and Dan Moriar ty, warden of the Los Lunas prison, said Gillihan was in the work-release program because he would have been eligible to be considered for parole on June 23. Anyone ‘‘with a probable release date of a year or less is eligible (to be con sidered) for work release,” Moriarty said. He said the other 47 work-release inmates at the facility were convicted of less serious crimes. Moriarty also said prisoners in the program are evaluated every 90 days. He said he evaluated Gillihan two weeks ago and saw no change in the man’s behavior. “This happens,’ Roybal said. “If it happened too much, we clearly wouldn't have it (work release). We run the risk of being burn ed and we were burned this weekend.” He said the incident may prompt a review of the classification procedure. Gillilhan was sentenced to four concurrent life sentences after he was con victed in Grant County on four counts of first-degree murder, Roybal said. He was transferred to the Los Lunas facility in September 198] and has been participating in work release since last July. He was convicted of kill ing his girlfriend, Maria Rodriguez, 44; her sister, Andrea, 55; her nephew, David, 21, and another man, Moises Rodriguez, 38. Roybal said the purpose of the work-release pro gram is to reintegrate prisoners into society, but Bernalillo County District Attorney Steven Schiff ex pressed concern over the program. “The Department of Cor rections has always seen short-term release as a necessary part of rehabilitation,’ he said Sunday. ‘‘And although I agree that short-term release should be used, I don't think they always consider the risk to the community in releasing some of these people while working toward rehabilita tion.’ Gillihan is described as being 6-foot tall and weighing about 140 pounds. He has numerous tattoos over his body.
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Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Mon, Mar 26, 1984
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