Two men who escaped from Mt. Bullion Conservation Camp on Nov. 3 are back behind bars. Special agents from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety and the Fugitive Apprehension Team arrested Gerlad L. Turner and Richard A. Green within a week after they fled Mariposa.

The two men made a daring escape, apparently to a waiting getaway car. They picked an unseasonably warm night, lit by a nearly full moon. They were reportedly picked up by a woman named “Amanda” in a red Volkswagen Jetta.

Turner was taken into custody without incident in Fresno on Nov. 5. He was taken to Corcoran State Prison before being transferred to Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown.

On Nov. 11, Green was arrested in Inglewood and taken to California Institution for Men in Chino. He was also taken into custody without incident.

Turner, who is also known as Mike Lavell Turner, was serving a five-year term for second degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Green is serving a nine-year term for being a felon in possession of a firearm and assault with a firearm.

Mt. Bullion Conservation Camp is under the jurisdiction of the CDCR’s Sierra Conservation Center. The primary mission of the center is to provide housing, programs and services for minimum and medium custody inmates. It is one of only two prisons in the state responsible for the training and placement of male inmates in the Conservation Camp Program.