French authorities have recaptured Elyazid A., a 20-year-old inmate who slipped out of Lyon-Corbas prison on Friday by curling himself into a large laundry bag carried by a cellmate whose sentence had just ended. The jailbreak went unnoticed until the next morning, prompting the prison service to concede “serious dysfunctions” at the 660-bed facility, which is housing roughly 1,200 people—an occupancy rate of about 170 percent. According to prison-service chief Sébastien Cauwel, the accomplice was allowed to wheel several bags to a waiting car without inspection, an oversight that allowed the second prisoner to leave “through the front gate in broad daylight.” Justice Minister-mandated inquiries by both the prison administration and the inspectorate general are under way to establish how security checks failed. Police from the national fugitive-tracking unit arrested Elyazid A. at about 6 a.m. on Monday in Sathonay-Camp, 12 kilometres north of Lyon, as he emerged from a cellar where he had been hiding. He was taken into custody on suspicion of organised-gang escape and criminal conspiracy, adding to existing accusations of organised-crime murder and weapons violations. Later the same day, investigators detained his 21-year-old former cellmate at Marseille’s Gare Saint-Charles on suspicion of complicity. Both men remain in police custody while prosecutors prepare formal charges, and prison officials face mounting scrutiny over procedures at one of France’s most overcrowded jails.