By Jason Evans

Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

LIBERTY — An inmate who escaped from the Pickens County Prison earlier this month was recaptured Thursday evening.

Steven Leroy Aiken, 45, was arrested without incident at a Liberty home around 7 p.m. March 14, Chief Deputy Creed Hashe said.

Aiken escaped from the prison at 4:05 p.m. Sunday, March 10, when a perimeter door was opened to bring laundry into the facility, Hashe said.

Incarcerated at the prison since January, Aiken was serving a 128-day Family Court sentence for failure to pay child support when he escaped.

On Jan. 7, he was charged with domestic violence and malicious

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