Bradley Struble, 37, was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Arkansas City, near the Oklahoma border.
Struble had been missing from the minimum-security Winfield Correctional Facility since just before midnight Wednesday.
He was apprehended without incident and was being held in the Cowley County Jail. He was scheduled to be released in October.
Struble is serving time for violating parole. His most recent criminal convictions were in 2004 for battering a correctional officer. Department of Corrections records show he also has convictions for aggravated burglary, robbery, criminal damage to property, theft and misdemeanor battery.