FARMINGTON – An inmate accused of escaping from the Franklin County jail in August was charged Thursday with kidnapping a woman and threatening to kill her if she didn’t help him.

Daniel Marcus Jackson, 25, of Jay was also accused Thursday of threatening to kill a Jay man if he didn’t assist him, court documents state.

Jackson was charged Thursday with one count of kidnapping, two counts of terrorizing and one count of escape in connection with the Aug. 13 incident.

He was also charged with felony assault on another inmate at the jail that occurred Aug. 4.

Jackson was being held at the Franklin County jail as a fugitive from justice in New York and on charges of terrorizing and reckless conduct in a Wilton case when he climbed over the razor-wire topped fence in the jail recreation yard, officials said.

Police said he ran through the woods to Holley Road and got in a vehicle believed to have been driven by his sister, Angela Taylor, 35, of 8 Free St., Jay. She has been charged with aiding and abetting escape and violation of release.

The van they were in was found abandoned at the Jay Plaza.

Jackson then went to a home in Jay where he kidnapped a woman, threatening to kill her and a man with her if they didn’t help him, Assistant District Attorney James Andrews said Friday. The woman drove him to an undisclosed location, he said.

Eventually, Jackson was caught in Farmington Falls about 12 hours after leaving the jail, police said.

Since Jackson had been convicted of assault and terrorizing twice in December 2000, the two counts of terrorizing and assault brought Thursday were elevated to felonies, Andrews said.

Jackson remains at the jail on $50,000 cash bail and $100,000 real estate surety on the new charges, concurrent with that same bail amount for previous charges.

Conditions of his release would include no contact with his sister, the man and the woman in Jay, and two other women from Wilton, whose relationship to the case is unclear.

His former court-appointed attorney, Linda Sparks, withdrew from representing Jackson at his request.

“I was willing to continue,” Sparks said Friday.

The court is in the process of appointing a new attorney for Jackson.