This petition may take the prize for chutspa.1 Two years after he began serving a 15-year sentence in 1985, petitioner escaped and remained at large until 1997 when he was captured and returned to prison.2 He brought this petition for ha-*465beas corpus seeking his immediate release on the theory that his 15-year sentence is up and he should be released. His specific complaint is that the State is wrongfully refusing to give him credit for the 9 years, k months, that he remained at large on his escape!

We, of course, find no error in the position of the State. He can hardly claim to be serving a sentence while he has escaped. Neither has he pointed to any provision of law that requires the State to give an escapee “credit” for the time he spends wrongfully outside his prison walls. If, as the poet said, “stone walls do not a prison make,”3 it is also true that 9/6 years outside on the lam do not a sentence make.

WRIT DENIED.