A Chester County resident is 'so relieved' she can let her kids play outside again after the escaped inmate was captured, but won't feel fully safe until the county prison ups is security

• A Chester County resident told Insider that she is "so relieved" the escaped prisoner was finally caught.
• But she said she won't feel fully safe until her county's prison ups its security.

A resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania, told Insider that she is "definitely relieved" that the escaped prisoner was finally captured on Wednesday morning, but that she won't feel truly safe until the Chester County Prison ups its security.

Suzanne Snyder, who lives near Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, said she feels "safe with my kids playing outside" and that she is "able to drive down the road without my doors locked, so it's definitely a relief" that he was caught.

Convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante was taken into police custody Wednesday morning following a massive two-week-long manhunt after a police dog caught the fugitive and bit him on the head, authorities said. He was armed with a stolen rifle and had attempted to crawl through thick underbrush as tactical teams zoned in on him.

For the last two weeks, Snyder, who acknowledged that she lives in a "generally good area" was on high alert as Cavalcante was running loose.

She told Insider she was making an effort to keep her car and house doors locked at all times and that she was making sure her home cameras had batteries in them. She said she was more frequently checking that camera footage, too, and was keeping her house alarms, as well as her outside lights, on.

"There might be some evenings where I could leave the car unlocked and run into the house," she said of the time before Cavalcante was running around her hometown. She said she was "being very careful at school dropoff just to not leave the car unattended or running or anything."

Going forward, she doesn't expect to return to her lax safety methods and will "probably be on higher alert in regards to making sure everything is locked" because "it really brought to light that he is not the only bad person out in the world" and "even if you live in a nice area you should probably still be careful."

That fear is heightened by the fact that another inmate escaped the same prison in the same way in May, she said.

Local news outlet ABC 6 reported that another prisoner named Igor Vidra Bolte escaped the prison on May 19 by scaling a wall in the exercise yard to gain access to the roof — just as Cavalcante did.

"I don't think we'll feel completely safe until there are some concrete changes made at the Chester County Prison because obviously there are some security issues there," Snyder told Insider.

"I am very relieved that he is going to be facing justice and have to serve out a life sentence," Snyder said, "Hopefully in a prison that is much more secure than Chester County."