A Mississippi jail escapee was captured after a 3-week manhunt, authorities say. It's the jail's sixth escape inside 2 months.

• The second of two inmates who escaped a Mississippi jail final month has been captured after three weeks.
• He was one among six inmates to flee the Raymond Detention Heart inside the final two months.
• Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones conceded that the jail is “poorly constructed” and is being fastened. 

Considered one of two inmates who escaped a Mississippi jail final month was captured Saturday morning after “a quick car encounter” with authorities, the Hinds County Sheriff announced.

Joseph Spring initially disappeared from the Raymond Detention Heart on Might 29, alongside along with his fellow inmate Michael Lewis. Lewis was captured by deputies later that very same day, however Spring led authorities on a virtually three-week manhunt earlier than being captured within the west Jackson space, in accordance with authorities.

Sheriff Tyree Jones instructed reporters final month that deputies observed Spring and Lewis’ disappearances after discovering objects and “what seemed to be blood” close to the jail’s fence. Deputies did a headcount and realized the 2 inmates had been lacking.

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Jones acknowledged that the jail was “poorly constructed,” and that escapes are an enormous drawback, in accordance with CNN. 

“We imagine that they had been in a position to get entry to an air duct inside the facility, which led to the outside of the ability the place they had been in a position to go over a fence and escape,” Jones stated.

Only one month previous to Spring and Lewis’ escapes, 4 different inmates escaped by breaches in a cell and the roof, in accordance with NBC Information.

CNN reported that of the 4 inmates who escaped in April, two have been recaptured, and two are lifeless.

Jones instructed reporters in a information convention final month that officers had been speeding to repair among the jail’s structural defects, in addition to add extra workers to patrol the ability. He added {that a} new detention middle is being constructed.