A man who escaped from a correctional facility on the NSW South Coast has been arrested in the ACT.

Police were alerted after a 44-year-old man went missing from South Nowra, last Wednesday morning, 29 January.

About 4:30am today, Friday 7 February, officers attached to ACT Policing’s City Station attended an apartment block in Dooring Street, Braddon, responding to reports a man was acting suspiciously in the underground carpark.

Police arrested a 44-year-old man in the stairwell and he was taken to the ACT Watchhouse where he remains, pending extradition to New South Wales.