(CNN) The two violent inmates who escaped a Mississippi penitentiary last week have been apprehended, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said.

The MBI, the US Marshals Service and state Department of Corrections took David May, 42, into custody Sunday, the bureau said in a news release, and Dillion Williams, 27, was captured Monday afternoon, the Department of Corrections tweeted.

The men escaped Friday, authorities said. The 2011 GMC pickup truck used in the escape has been recovered and is being processed by the MBI crime scene unit.

Corrections officials discovered May and Williams were missing from the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman during an emergency inmate count conducted at 1:45 a.m. (2:45 a.m. ET) Saturday. The prison, situated in the Mississippi Delta and known as Parchman Farm, is about 100 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.

May is serving a life sentence for two aggravated assault convictions, and Williams is serving 40 years for residential burglary and aggravated assault, officials said.

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