Social media loving jailbreaker arrested on NSW south coast

Social media loving jailbreaker Beau Wiles has been arrested this afternoon - just hours before family say he was going to hand himself into police.

Wiles escaped Goulburn Correctional Complex’s minimum security wing around 10am yesterday.

A close family member told 9NEWS earlier today the convicted criminal was planning on surrendering himself to police tonight after enjoying “one day of freedom”.

Police arrested Wiles around 5.10pm after they stopped a vehicle travelling along Five Islands Road in Unanderra.

Wiles, along with two women he was travelling with, were taken to a local police station and are assisting police with their inquiries.

Earlier it emerged Wiles had escaped by getting into a black getaway car after exiting Goulburn jail’s work yard.

“It was a black Commodore that's picked him up, and that's part of the police investigation now,” NSW Corrections Minister David Elliott told Macquarie Radio earlier today.

The 25-year-old had previously posed for jailhouse snaps bare chested or even only in his undies, which were posted to Facebook.

After his escape, his full online presence from behind bars was revealed.

Photos, including one of him feeding a baby in what appears to be a hospital ward, were posted while he was incarcerated.

“Love u too my prince can’t wait to have my hand all ova that sexy body of urz,” Beck Wats, understood to be the escapee’s partner, wrote on one bare-chested selfie.

Wiles was a month into an 18-month sentence for shoplifting, assault, robbery, car theft and driving while disqualified.

He was eligible for parole in July next year.