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Missing more than seven weeks, Coralville inmate back behind bars
A 39-year-old Iowa inmate who has been listed as escaped for more than seven weeks is back in custody.
Hope House officials in Coralville say Brett Young was apprehended on Wednesday.
Young had been assigned to community-based, residential facility for a drunken-driving conviction.
Sam Black is the residential supervisor at Hope House. He told the Iowa City Press-Citizen that he didn't know how Young was retaken. Young is being held in Johnson County Jail.
Records say Young left Hope House on Nov. 10 to go work out at a fitness center. He didn't come back.
Another Hope House inmate, convicted robber Joseph Dahlen, is also missing. He was listed as escaped on Dec. 23.
39-year-old Brett Young, who was listed as escaped for more than seven weeks from the Hope House in Coralville, is back in custody and is now being held at the Johnson County Jail.
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