Prison Escapee Winks, Tells Judge to 'Stick It' After Sentencing

A bank robber who escaped from a Loop federal jail and led police on a manhunt through Tinley Park and the south suburbs last year was sentenced to an additional 41 months in prison Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

Kenneth Conley, 40, was told his daring escape earned him an extra 41 months—in addition to the 20 years he's already facing—and will be transferred to the "supermax" prison in Colorado to serve his time.

Conley wasn't bashful about his reaction to the sentencing from U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman.

"You can take your analogy and stick it right up your (expletive), judge," the Tribune reports Conley as saying. 

Feinerman pointed to Conley's "incorrigible" past—speckled with two dozen convictions including theft, battery, armed robbery, aggravated assault and resisting arrest—as reasons why he should serve the most recent sentence consecutive to the 20-year one. The judge went on to say that Conley's actions demonstrate "nothing has worked" to help rehabilitate the convict.

Conley and cellmate Joseph Banks last December escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center high-rise at 71 W. Van Buren St., dropping to the street from a 17th-floor window with a rope fashioned out of bedsheets. 

A massive manhunt in Tinley Park, New Lenox and other suburbs ensued. Conley came to a home on 176th Street in Tinley Park that morning to see his mother, Sandy, but she turned her son away. Formerly a floor host at a Chicago Heights strip club, Conley used to live in Tinley Park

Officers caught Conley on Jan. 4 when he tried to disguise himself as an elderly man while hiding out in Palos Hills, police said. Banks was caught in Lincoln Park.

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