Second Mississippi escapee captured after nearly 3 weeks at large

Mississippi authorities say they have captured the second of two escapees who broke out of a detention facility in May.

"Escapee-Joseph Spring was captured this morning by HCSO and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force following a brief vehicle encounter in the west Jackson area," Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said in a tweet Saturday.

Spring and Michael Lewis, both 31, went missing from the Raymond Detention Center, about 15 miles west of Jackson, on May 29. Four men had escaped the same center the month before.

A deputy discovered Spring and Lewis's escape after noticing items and "what appeared to be blood" near the facility's outer perimeter fence and conducting a headcount, Jones told a news conference at the time.

"We believe that they were able to get access to an air duct within the facility, which led to the exterior of the facility where they were able to go over a fence and escape," Jones said.

He said the construction of the "poorly built" center was helping prisoners to escape.

Later on May 29, the sheriff tweeted that Lewis had been captured and faced additional escape charges.