The inmates are running the asylum -- another episode.

Phillip Arnold Paul killed an elderly lady in 1987. He soaked her body in gasoline and buried her in her flower garden. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sent to Eastern State Hospital in Washington State. In 1991, he was taken on a field trip to a lake. He walked away from the outing. He was captured, but as he was being booked into the county jail, he knocked a sheriff's deputy unconscious and was charged with first-degree escape and second-degree assault.

On a subsequent conditional release, he fathered a child. In early September, a judge ruled that he "remained a threat to the public because of his aggressive behavior and his decreased awareness of his psychosis." Just two weeks later, Paul was taken with 30 other patients to the Spokane County Fair. Despite, as required by procedure, being kept within eyesight of staff at all times, he walked away from the fair and remained on the lam for several days. He finally was captured 180 miles from the fair site.

Just the environment you want when you take your kids for a fun day at the fair -- 31 crazed killers standing in line with them. The inmates are running the asylums!

"Escaped killer recaptured." The Dallas Morning News; September 21, 2009; p. 4A.