Qld prison escapees arrested, charged

Two men who escaped from a low-security Queensland jail over the weekend have been recaptured and charged.

The inmates, Ryan William Miller and Aaron Lee Woods, had been serving sentences for assault offences at the low-security Capricornia Correctional Centre Farm north of Rockhampton when they escaped on Saturday morning.

Police arrested the pair in Brisbane's north yesterday afternoon and they will appear in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court on Monday, charged with one count each of escape lawful custody.