This is probably a naive statement, but I wonder how this would even be possible anymore. How do you get away with getting a job or a bank account or manage to live anything like a normal life without some sort of ID? Seems as though we’re tracked every which way we turn.
A fugitive female felon generally has to spread her legs at the first truck stop or biker bar that she finds as she runs from the prison dogs tracking her.
Presuming that her looks (which wouldn't seem to hold water in the case for this thread) satisfy some "legitimate" segment of society, she'll simply let her new boyfriend do the banking and driving.
A felon can do odd jobs such as making/selling crafts, art, baked goods, selling scrap metal, or turning to crime (e.g. prostitution/drugs) to obtain income.
Have you ever followed any of the jobs done by roving bands of American Gypsies (e.g. magazine sales scams, carnivals, circuses, sidewalk curb house number painting)? The trick is that they are selling things or services...and the buyer isn't checking their ID's (unlike an employer who would have to report your income as an employee to the IRS).
Likewise, illegal men work every day in the U.S. (e.g. Mexican construction workers). You just wouldn't get top Dollar for your services.
They pretty well have to live off of the grid, though. A fugitive caught doing banking or driving or getting most types of credit cards is pretty well going to get busted. And of course anything that required being fingerprinted would be a deal-breaker for the fugitive, too.
And should they run into abusive criminal elements (which is likely in their position), they can easily be enslaved/extorted, making them both vulnerable and desperate/dangerous at all times.
So how do you think that the fugitive in the article for this thread was found?
Same way illegals do. Fake documents.
If this woman was really being abused by her husband; then she should be let go.