BAYTOWN (November 30, 2009)--Lee College and three campuses in the Goose Creek school district in and around Baytown were on lockdown Monday after a Texas prison inmate escaped from a prison van near Baytown during a prison transfer after briefly taking two prison guards hostage.

Officials believe Arcade Joseph Comeaux, 49, is armed and wearing a prison officer's uniform taken from one of the guards

State prison officials said the officers were transferring Comeaux from a prison in Huntsville to one in Beaumont when the inmate pulled out a gun.

Officials say that at the time of the escape, the inmate was in a wheelchair that he claimed he needed to help move him around.

Comeaux took the prison officers' weapons and a uniform, and handcuffed the guards together in the back of the prison van before escaping on foot.

When he was last seen, he was wearing one of the officer's gray uniforms and black boots and carrying the guards' weapons, a shotgun and two semiautomatic pistols.

He left his own weapon behind.

Police found the officers unharmed later Monday morning.

Comeaux, who’s 6-feet tall and weighs about 200 pounds, is serving a life sentence for convictions in Fort Bend County of indecency with a child, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.