The Mississippi Department of Corrections has announced the capture of a convicted killer who escaped on Christmas Eve.

Authorities in Mississippi say a "desperate" and "very dangerous" convicted murderer, Drew Johnson, is back in custody after escaping from prison Tuesday.

The man, who had been serving a life sentence, broke out of the state’s newest prison on Christmas Eve, officials said.

LEAKESVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections captured an escaped inmate in south Mississippi. Prison leaders said Drew Johnson escaped from the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville on Christmas Eve.

Convicted murderer Drew Johnson is back in prison on Christmas Day after briefly escaping a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve.

Andrew Lansing, a corrections officer at a prison in Chillicothe, Ohio, was killed Christmas Day in what state officials say was an "inmate assault."

An Ohio prison guard is dead after being assaulted by an inmate on Christmas Day, authorities said. “It is with great sadness that I confirm the tragic death of Correction Officer Andrew Lansing following an inmate assault that occurred at Ross Correctional Institution this morning,

An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack authorities said was "beyond comprehension."

A corrections officer died after an assault by an inmate in an Ohio prison on Christmas morning, authorities say.