POMEROY — One of three men who escaped early Sunday from the Meigs County Jail remains at large, and another has been taken to prison, Sheriff Robert Beegle said Monday.

Timothy Wickersham, who is still free, James Lee Garnes, and Buford W. Smallwood, Jr., walked out of the jail after they used a mop handle to secure keys from an unlocked key box and escaped through a door used primarily as a fire escape, Beegle said. Garnes turned himself in later on Sunday. Smallwood was located Sunday in Middleport.

Beegle said Smallwood was transported to prison Monday. He was sentenced in Meigs County Common Pleas Court last week, but a delay in paperwork necessitated his stay over the weekend in the county jail. Smallwood had already escaped the jail once, earlier this summer, but was apprehended shortly after.

Beegle said the deputy who was on duty as jailer at the time will be subject to disciplinary action, and that he has implemented new security procedures to ensure jailers, who also serve as dispatchers, can safely monitor prisoners while preventing escapes.

Beegle said no criminal charges have been filed against any of the three alleged escapees, but said he expects the Meigs County Grand Jury will consider escape charges against them.

A man who escaped last week from the Middleport Jail, Ernest Roach, is also still at large.