Two prison inmates who escaped over a razor-wire fence at Cedar Creek Corrections Center have been captured, law-enforcement officials say.
The inmates, identified as Richard Harvell, 30, and Sage Bear, 26, escaped Saturday night. They were captured without incident Sunday in the Capital Forest, about 6 miles north of the prison in Littlerock, Thurston County, said Washington State Department of Corrections spokesman Jeremy Barclay.
Both men were scheduled to be transferred to a state prison facility, he said.
Harvell had been convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm in Snohomish County and began serving a 44-month sentence on March 15.
His expected release date had been tentatively set for March 19, 2019.
Bear was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in King County and began serving a 130-month sentence on Jan. 27, 2009.