Four of five inmates who escaped from a jail in central California and were considered “armed and dangerous” were captured on Saturday, the authorities said.

The inmates escaped from the Madera County Jail around 9:15 p.m. on Friday, the county Sheriff’s Department said in a statement on its Facebook page.

But around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Pacific time, Erica Stuart, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, announced that four of the inmates had been captured. Roel Soliz, 29, who was convicted of burglary and parole and probation violations, was still at large, she said in an email.

The men had fled on foot, wearing their bright orange jail jumpsuits, Ms. Stuart said Saturday night. She told The Associated Press that officers from the county Department of Corrections, which operates the jail, noticed that the inmates were missing about an hour after they escaped.