Inmate who escaped New Year’s Eve turned himself in

The Correctional Service of Canada has confirmed that an inmate who escaped from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary New Year’s Eve turned himself in over the weekend at a correctional facility in southern Alberta.

Steven Briggs, 24, turned himself in to staff members at Bowden Institution around 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

Briggs escaped from the minimum security unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary on Dec. 31. Briggs stole a truck belonging to Corrections to make his escape and was spotted driving the vehicle the next day in Yorkton.

Briggs was serving a jail sentence of seven years and three months for assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, robbery, vehicle theft and possession of property obtained by crime at the time of his escape.

The CSC said it continues to investigate the circumstances around the incident.