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2nd of 3 Ohio prison escapees caught today

UPDATE @ 6:15 p.m (April 3)

The second of three inmates who escaped from a corrections facility in southeast Ohio was captured today.

Justin Stanley, 25, was caught in Newark, the Associated Press reported.

Authorities say Stanley and 20-year-old David Skeens escaped from the 112-bed prison early Saturday while 29-year-old Troy Byrd escaped hours later. Skeens was nabbed Saturday morning in Heath. Byrd remains on the lam.

The SEPTA Correctional Facility houses prisoners from 14 southeast Ohio counties sentenced to a maximum 180 days for low-level felony crimes. SEPTA supervisor Brenda Ostrander said the men climbed over a fence topped with razor wire to escape, the AP reported.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction will assess security measures at the facility.

FIRST REPORT

Two of three men who escaped the SEPTA Correctional Facility in Nelsonville since Friday remain at large.

Inmates David Skeens, Justin Delano Stanley and Troy Brandon Tyler Byrd escaped the prison in two separate incidents Friday night and Saturday evening, according to a report from our news partner WBNS-10TV in Columbus.

Skeens was reportedly captured at a hotel and is being held in the Licking County Justice Center, according to the WBNS report.

The search continues for Byrd, who is serving time for heroin possession out of Champaign County, and Stanley, who is serving a sentence for burglary out of Fairfield County.

We’ll update this story as more information becomes available.

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