A 40-year-old man who sparked a massive manhunt after escaping from the Sumter County Detention Center and later tried to dig his way out of a solitary confinement cell has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison.
Judge Charles L.W. Helm accepted a plea this past week from Joseph Luke Brown, handing down a 130.950-month sentence. Brown faced a slew of charges for the crime spree, including escape, multiple counts of burglary, grand theft of a motor vehicle, and possession of contraband…