It took authorities in Pennsylvania 13 days to track down convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante after he escaped from a county jail last month. It took just a few hours after his capture Wednesday for officials to deliver him to the prison that will be his home for the foreseeable future.

On Thursday, Cavalcante, 34, began his first full day at SCI Phoenix, a maximum-security facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, that for a few years housed Bill Cosby. Cavalcante arrived at SCI Phoenix far more notorious than when he escaped from a jail in Chester County on Aug. 31.

He was convicted of murder in the killing of an ex-girlfriend and had been sentenced to life without parole when, nine days after the sentencing, he managed to escape by scaling a wall in the prison’s yard area and climbing onto the roof.

For almost two weeks, Cavalcante eluded a search that came to include around 500 federal, state and local officers. The search took a more urgent turn Monday night after Cavalcante stole a .22-caliber rifle from an open garage and fled. Over the course of the search, the convicted murderer had been spotted several times, and more than once, officials believed they had him hemmed in — only to be taken by surprise when he showed up somewhere else.

The search came to a swift end Wednesday morning after a team of officers quietly surrounded Cavalcante in a wooded area of South Coventry Township, and he was subdued by a search dog.

Initially, Cavalcante was taken to a state police barracks, where he was processed and treated for a bite by Yoda, the search dog. Within hours, though, he was placed in the custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and taken to SCI Phoenix.

The facility is only about 30 miles from the local jail in Chester County, but it is a different world. SCI Phoenix, described as a “state-of-the-art facility” by the state’s Department of Corrections, is a maximum-security prison that opened five years ago.