Lansing ? A prison volunteer and a convicted murderer were caught Friday night in Tennessee, Kansas prison officials said.

Toby Young, who ran the Safe Harbor Prison Dog program at Lansing Correctional Facility, and John Manard were captured around 8:40 p.m. by local, state and federal law enforcement authorities on Interstate 75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville after a brief vehicle chase.

Minor injuries were reported during the capture. Toby Young was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.

“It’s great news,” Corrections Department spokesman Bill Miskell said. “Obviously, this is the outcome we were hoping for.

“I think there has always been a concern that anyone in the company of John Manard would be in danger. I don’t think that has ever been far from anyone’s mind.”

Young is charged with helping Manard, 27, escape Feb. 12 in a van used by the dog rescue program.

Prison officials have said guards’ familiarity with Young, 48, helped her pull off the escape.

Authorities have said the daring escape was carefully planned, that the two had more than $10,000 in cash and two semiautomatic weapons, and that they bought hair coloring and an electric razor that may have been used to alter appearances.

Young’s van was found Feb. 14 at a Bonner Springs storage facility she had rented, 10 miles south of the prison. Calls to the homes of Toby Young and her parents were not immediately returned.

The Safe Harbor Prison Dog Program saved dogs from death at animal shelters by having inmates train them to make them suitable for adoption. Manard was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, aggravated robbery and possession of firearms in the 1996 killing of an Overland Park man during a carjacking. He now will face additional charges of aggravated escape from custody.

Manard and Young will be held in a jail in Tennessee until they are extradited to Kansas.

Miskell said he had few additional details. A news conference was planned for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Lansing.