GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) - Police said they have captured a convict who twice escaped a state work camp.

Gresham police said 38-year-old Donald Andrew Bennett is a member of the "European Kindred White Supremacist" gang.

He was serving three years when he fled the work camp in the Tillamook State Forest on June 29.

It was the second time he escaped from the same minimum-security camp in seven years, state officials said.

Police said he broke into a Troutdale home in the 800 block of Southwest 29th Way about 2 a.m. Saturday and stole car keys as the owner slept on the couch. She awoke as the burglar stole her car.

Officers chased after him after the stolen car was spotted near the intersection of Southeast Stark and Northeast Cleveland, police said. Following a pursuit that lasted about seven minutes, the stolen car crashed into a hedge row at 19725 S.E. Stark, and the driver fled. An officer and a dog found him in a tree a few minutes later.

He was jailed without bail and faces multiple charges.

During the chase, a Gresham police car collided with a vehicle not involved in the pursuit. Two woman were taken to Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center for treatment, along with the Gresham officer, police said. The officer was later released, but the condition of the women was not immediately available.

Chane Griggs, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman, said it's not clear why Bennett was allowed to go back to the unfenced work camp he fled with two other men in 2001.

"That is a very good question. I don't have an answer for that," Griggs said. She said she would follow up with prison officials Monday.

She said Bennett will have to face the charges from Saturday's events before the Department of Corrections deals with him again, but "he will not be in another work camp."

The camp is a work program the Department of Corrections operates with the Oregon Department of Forestry.

In his current prison stay, Bennett was doing time for multiple counts of burglary and unauthorized use of a vehicle. His release date was Dec. 24, 2010. He was classified as a "minimum custody inmate."

He arrived at the camp in May and worked on an outside forestry crew.

The first time he escaped, he had been in prison since 1994 on burglary and assault convictions.

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