Two young men were recently sentenced to time in state prison after pleading guilty to escaping from a youth correctional facility in Marion County last year.

Angel Diaz-Barrera, 20, of Salem, was sentenced to nine months in prison July 31 for escaping from MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility with two other young men in February 2024.

He pleaded guilty July 31 to first-degree criminal mischief in Marion County Circuit Court.

In exchange for his guilty plea, a charge of second-degree escape was dismissed, court records show.

The other men in the escape were his brother Julian Diaz-Navarro, 20, also of Salem, and Xavier Swimm, 22, of Portland.

Swimm was sentenced July 16 to 15 months in prison on a criminal mischief charge, court records show. He pleaded guilty that day.

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