by Jo Ciavaglia , Bucks County Courier Times Published Sept. 26, 2025, 10:10 a.m. ET

For the second time in less than two months, a Bucks County inmate participating in a work release program has gone missing after failing to return from a Doylestown fast food restaurant.

This time it appears that 52-year-old Harlist Harak of Bensalem wasn’t scheduled to work when he left the jail shortly before 2:30 p.m. Sept. 16, according to a probable cause affidavit.

When he didn’t return to the Bucks County Correctional Center shortly before midnight, staff checked and learned from a restaurant contact that Harak wasn’t on the schedule and didn’t go to work, the affidavit said.

Harak was approved in August to participate in the work release program, which allows inmates to take jobs with a

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