Prisoner Beau Wiles escapes from Goulburn jail

Photo: FacebookBeau Wiles updated his status while he was in prison, he has since escaped and police are searching for the 25-year-old.

The 25-year-old (left) escaped from the minimum security facility on Wednesday morning.

Beau Wiles’ most recent Facebook post came two days before his escape.

About 5.10pm Thursday, a highway patrol vehicle stopped a vehicle on Five Islands Rd, in the Wollongong suburb of Unanderra, and a passenger was identified as Beau Wiles, the 25-year-old man who escaped from Goulburn Correctional Centre yesterday.

Wiles also bragged about his gym work-outs, despite a ban on mobile phones in NSW prisons.

Those entries include photographs posted on Monday that show Wiles in nothing but a cap and underpants. NSW Minister for Corrections said he got into a black Commodore after he broke out.

“I’m bringing forward reforms and I’ve made it very very clear to corrections, to the commissioner and to the senior management, that we need to make sure that this doesn’t happen”, Mr Elliott said.

The court was told the DPP was considering transferring the case to the District court where they could face a longer prison sentence.

“Mr Ali Chahine was sitting in the dock for the hearing and was not handcuffed”, a spokeswoman said.

When he was denied bail on Wednesday afternoon, he allegedly assaulted two Corrective Services guards before jumping out of the dock and running from the room without any shoes on.

Mr Chahine was appearing in the District Court for breaching his bail on drug supply charges.

The incident sparked two major reviews of security at Goulburn, which is considered Australia’s most secure jail.

Corrective Services Minister David Elliott has said the government would work towards having phone jamming technology at all jails across the state.

Inmates also did not have access to the internet, a department spokesman told AAP on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old has been charged with aiding an inmate to escape from lawful custody and will also appear in court on Friday, while the 43-year-old was released pending further inquiries.

His sister Angel McBride took to Facebook on Wednesday to beg her brother to turn himself in.

The minister told AAP the Facebook account may not have been managed by Wiles, but he had ordered an investigation into whether the convicted shoplifter did have access to contraband.

“It was built before a lot of this new technology that we’re finding prisoners are getting their hands on was even thought of”.

Mr Elliott said full body scanners were being installed in Goulburn Correctional Centre on Thursday to prevent phones from being taken into the prison.

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley said the escape was a fiasco.