A woman serving time for a gun charge and setting fire to an Alabama church in 2021 managed to escape from a federal prison in Connecticut for about 45 minutes before being captured, prison authorities said Wednesday.
Xiaoqin Yan, 30, a Chinese national, has been at the low-security facility in Danbury since Nov. 20, where she’s serving 8 1/2 years for Possession of a Firearm by an Illegal Alien.
Employees at FCI Danbury were notified at around 7 p.m. Tuesday that a security device had been activated and an inmate had escaped. Local police were notified, found Yan at about 7:45 p.m. and returned her to prison officials, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons…