2 escaped Georgia inmates captured

UPSON COUNTY, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - Authorities have captured two escaped Spalding County inmates.

According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, the two inmates, James Rodney Owenby and Zachery Glenn Rampley, left a work detail just before noon Wednesday. They were both working at the city maintenance department cutting grass along Veterans Drive in Thomaston, officials said.

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Rampley was captured early Thursday morning in Dalton by Whitfield County deputies. Owenby was apprehended in Spalding County.

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The inmates, both 27, were being held at Spalding Correctional Institute in Griffin.

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The Georgia Department of Corrections said both inmates are known members of the Ghostface Gangsters and Aryan prison gang.

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