Colt Lundy: A Prison Of His Own Making

Written on May 11, 2014 by Guest Author

Categories: Entertainment Archive 2014, News Archive 2014

Tags: Colt Lundy, Cromwell, Indy Star, Phil Danner, Robert King

Colt Lundy, the co-defendant in the Kosciusko County murder of Phil Danner, waits outside the wing to his cell block at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Lundy was Danner's stepson. He and Paul Gingerich shot Danner twice each. Gingerich was 12 at the time; Lundy was 15. They both pleaded guilty and got 25-year sentences. (Photo: Steve Sanchez Kelly Wilkinson/The Star) — Colt Lundy, the co-defendant in the Kosciusko County murder of Phil Danner, waits outside the wing to his cell block at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Lundy was Danner’s stepson. He and Paul Gingerich shot Danner twice each. Gingerich was 12 at the time; Lundy was 15. They both pleaded guilty and got 25-year sentences. (Photo: Steve Sanchez Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)

By Robert King
Indy Star

CARLISLE, Ind. — For most of the men of cell house N, the quarter-mile walk around the prison yard to the chow hall and back is just the price they pay for breakfast. The heavy steel doors open, and they surge forward into the predawn gloom, compelled by hunger.

For Colt Lundy, the push into the brisk morning air is driven as much by other things — the chance to move freely, to leave the confines of a cell the size of a walk-in closet, to breathe air that hasn’t been recirculated among hundreds of caged men.

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