Gregg Allman Film Director Asks for Early Release from Prison

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The father of a film worker killed by a train on the set of a movie about Gregg Allman is asking a Georgia judge to keep the film’s director in jail. Richard Jones, the father of camera assistant Sarah Jones, is asking the judge to deny a request from “Midnight Rider” director Randall Miller for early release from his two-year jail sentence. Miller entered a plea deal last March for involuntary manslaughter. Sarah Jones was killed in February 2014 while the crew was filming without permission on a railroad bridge and a freight train came through. Miller’s lawyers are asking for early release because they say Miller’s weight gain, shortness of breath and elevated blood pressure may be signs of congestive heart failure. They say he’s also been a model prisoner. Richard Jones says if Miller gets early release, it sends the message that “Hollywood gets a break.”