Two officers disciplined over inmate who escaped Miami jail

MIAMI (AP) -- Two Miami-Dade corrections officers are on paid administrative leave because an inmate escaped the maximum security jail they were working at.

Reynaldo Rapalo rappelled down the roof of Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Tuesday night.

Officials say the officers weren't involved in the escape, but they're being disciplined for their wrongdoing.

Rapalo and another inmate apparently climbed through a vent in a cell on the sixth floor and made it to the roof on the same level. The vent, which connects to the roof, was supposed to be locked but its door had been pried off. Bars blocking the vent's opening onto the roof also were cut.

Authorities have ordered all vents at the Knight jail welded shut and that lighting be improved.

Rapalo is accused of being the Shenandoah rapist who sexually assaulted seven girls and women and attacked four others in the Little Havana area in 2002 and 2003. He was awaiting a February trial that could have sent him to prison for life.

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