A pris­on­er who es­caped from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison last Fri­day was re­cap­tured along the West­ern Main Road on Mon­day.

Po­lice said pris­on­er Ja­mal Joseph, who es­caped from the prison on No­vem­ber 14, was held dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers from the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion re­ceived in­for­ma­tion around 3 pm from prison per­son­nel that Joseph had been seen along the West­ern Main Road, near Tem­blado­ra Park. Of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol re­spond­ed and met prison of­fi­cers al­ready on the scene.

Po­lice said a prison of­fi­cer was dri­ving south along the West­ern Main Road around 2.30pm when he no­ticed an un­usu­al ob­ject in the wa­ter. On check­ing, he re­alised it was the miss­ing pris­on­er, who ap­peared to have suf­fered mul­ti­ple in­juries dur­ing his es­cape.

TTPS of­fi­cers es­cort­ed Joseph to a med­ical fa­cil­i­ty. He re­mains un­der the su­per­vi­sion of prison of­fi­cials.

The Prison Ser­vice said Joseph was dis­cov­ered miss­ing from his cell dur­ing rou­tine checks around 8.32 pm on Fri­day. He is serv­ing a five-year sen­tence with hard labour for lar­ce­ny of a mo­tor ve­hi­cle and was ex­pect­ed to be re­leased in Oc­to­ber 2028.

An in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion is un­der­way in­to the cir­cum­stances of the es­cape.