Surveillance footage shows Alabama deputy, capital murder suspect escape from jail

As authorities confirmed that there was a "special relationship" between an Alabama corrections officer and the prisoner with whom she disappeared last week, experts in criminal justice and law said they were not surprised by the development.

The close proximity of staff members and inmates, the prisoners’ lack of privacy and the dynamic between female staff members and male inmates in correctional facilities can create opportunities for inappropriate bonds to form, they said.

It's “a very common story,” said the director of the Project on Addressing Prison Rape, Brenda Smith, a law professor at American University.

“I think that it is sort of the construct of supervision in these settings that creates those environments and those opportunities,” said Smith, adding that such facilities are sexualized environments, where male inmates lack privacy and female staff members are often subject to sexual harassment from inmates or other staff members.

Vicky White, 56, is wanted on a charge of permitting or facilitating the escape of Casey White, 38, from the Lauderdale County Jail, Sheriff Rick Singleton said at a news conference Monday. Vicky and Casey White aren’t related.

The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that investigators talked with inmates at the jail and confirmed there was a “special relationship” between Vicky and Casey White. The specific nature of the relationship was not disclosed.

The case has drawn comparisons to a similar one from 2015, in which Joyce Mitchell, a former prison seamstress, helped prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat escape from a correctional facility in Dannemora, New York. Mitchell, who was accused of having sexual contact with Matt, pleaded guilty to a contraband charge and was sentenced to up to seven years in prison. She was released early from her sentence in 2020.

Peter Dumas, who served as an attorney for Joyce Mitchell and her husband Lyle Mitchell, said that while it may not be a “popular opinion,” he believes jail and prison staff members can be manipulated by inmates in the way people are manipulated by scammers.

“That’s the kind of the spot that Joyce Mitchell was in,” he said.

Based on what authorities have said about Vicky White, her actions were “obviously something that’s not in keeping with her character,” Dumas said.

“It looks from everything that she was a model employee. So what’s causing this? Is there some sort of mental health issue? Is there some sort of undue influence?” he said.

Singleton has said Vicky White “was an exemplary employee” with 17 years of “an unblemished record, not a single negative thing in her personnel file.”

“She was admired and respected by her co-workers and her subordinates,” he said. “It’s just been a total shock.”
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