Two-time South Carolina prison escapee captured in Texas
COLUMBIA, South Carolina -- An inmate was re-captured in Texas early Friday after his second escape from a maximum security prison in South Carolina, prison officials said.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections said in a Twitter message that 46-year-old inmate Jimmy Causey was in custody.
Corrections spokeswoman Sommer Sharpe said Causey was arrested by the Texas Department of Public Safety around 3 a.m. Friday. There were no immediate details on where the Texas troopers found Causey. Messages left with the Texas Department of Public Safety were not immediately returned Friday morning.
Causey was missing from the Liebert Correctional Institution in Ridgeville on Wednesday afternoon. The prison is about 30 miles northwest of Charleston.
Authorities were still trying to determine how Causey made his latest escape from the South Carolina prison. No details have been released on that escape.
He and another inmate had escaped from a prison in Columbia in 2005 in a garbage truck and were captured three days later.
Causey was serving a life prison sentence after he was convicted of holding a Columbia attorney and his family at gunpoint in their home.
Following his first capture, Causey was held in South Carolina's most secure, super-max facility in Columbia, but he was eventually returned to the system's general population.
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