Stephen Jamieson, a maximum security prisoner at Goulburn Correctional Centre in New South Wales, made his daring escape during broad daylight on Tuesday, dressed in his regular prison greens.
Jamieson tied bed sheets together to scale a wall and reportedly put a pillow around his waist to avoid being hurt by razor wire.
He escaped, reportedly after cutting through a gate at the back of a small secure exercise yard attached to his cell.
The 28-year-old, who was serving 12 years in prison for armed robbery, is now back in custody after 20 police officers and a dog squad searched the local area for him.
Jamieson joined a small pantheon of Australian prisoners who have tried their hand at the Great Escape with varying degrees of success.
