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Missing Dorchester Inmate Arrested

RCMP in Nova Scotia have arrested a missing inmate from the Dorchester Penitentiary.

66-year-old Jack Dennis Woods was unlawfully at large for two weeks, after failing to return to a Dorchester half-way house where he was serving time for a 1976 manslaughter conviction.

He was apprehended by the RCMP in Tantallon on Friday September 6th.

Woods remains in custody. An investigation into his disappearance is ongoing.

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