A Lumpkin County inmate who escaped Tuesday from his hospital room at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville was captured Wednesday in White County Steven Smith, 27, was captured with the help of U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit, and the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, according to a statement released by Alan Roach, spokesman for the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office.