PORTLAND, Ore. -- An inmate being transported from an Oregon state forest work camp escaped Monday morning but was captured later in the day, police said.

Jeffrey Lane, 29, was found in Raleigh Hills, near Scholls Ferry, in a Fred Meyer Parking lot. He was not wearing his prisoner clothing.

U.S. Marshals interviewed dozens of people to catch him, authorities said.

Lane was in a transport van in north Portland headed for the Columbia River Correctional Institution near Portland International Airport.

How Lane got loose and whether he was shackled remained questions, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Chane Griggs said. The van was at Interstate 5 and Marine Drive.

Lane was serving a 30-month sentence for burglary and was due for release in October 2009.

He was coming from the camp, a satellite of the minimum-security Columbia River prison.

The camp has 200 beds, and inmates earn $3 to $4 an hour working on reforestation projects, according to the department's Web site.

The camp dates to the days after the Tillamook Burn of 1933 and sits along an old stage coach line across the Coast Range from Forest Grove to Tillamook. The camp is about 28 miles east of Tillamook

It was the second time in three weeks that a prisoner at the South Fork Forest Camp had gotten away. A white supremacist gang member who walked away in June was recaptured Saturday in Gresham after a police chase.

On June 29, Donald Bennett, 38, walked away from the camp for the second time in seven years. He was doing time for burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

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He was recaptured after sneaking into a woman's home in Troutdale, stealing her car keys and eventually leading police on a chase that ended when he crashed into hedges. He fled, but an officer and a dog tracked him to a tree he had climbed.

Bennett had been at the camp in 2001 and walked away with two other men.

Griggs said Monday the department's policy has been to allow an inmate who walked away from a camp to return if five years have elapsed.

But, she said, as a result of Bennett's walkaway, "that policy is under reconsideration."