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Missing South Coast Prison Inmate Back In Custody

An inmate authorities had been looking for after he walked away from a minimum security prison facility on the South Coast is back in custody.

Johnny Macias was reported missing from the Ventura County Conservation Camp in Camarillo Sunday night. He was apprehended yesterday in San Diego County. The 20 year old had been serving a three year sentence for a carjacking.

The Camarillo camp is designed for low risk offenders, and allows them to hold jobs so they can help support their families.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.