James Paul Jinnette, 29, and Brett Anthony Islaub, 33, were accompanied by seven Correctional Services officers when led to the dock before Judge Anthony Colefax at the Bathurst Court House on Wednesday.

Officers sat on either side of the dock and at each side of doors into the court as Judge Colefax heard the two inmates make statements before adjourning the matter to enable a psychiatric report to be prepared for Jinnette and a psychological report for Islaub.

Their cases will return to court on Friday, May 28 in Sydney.

Both accused have pleaded guilty to similar charges, carrying up to 25-year sentences, which arise from their escape from Kirkconnell Correctional Centre on Monday, May 18 last year.

The escapees made their way to Bathurst where they abducted a 55-year-old woman in the car park at Stockland shopping centre the next morning.

They then fled along the Great Western Highway at speeds of up to 180km/h before careering off the road and crashing east of Mount Lambie.

After hearing separately from Jinnette on Wednesday morning and Islaub in the afternoon, Judge Colefax said he would deal with the matters together in Sydney at the request of counsel for the accused men and Crown prosecutor Frank Holles.

Islaub told the court how he was planning to escape by "jumping the wall" to see his dying mother in Penrith hospital.

When told the hospital was the most obvious place police would stake out after his escape, Islaub said it did not matter "because I'd have been happy, seeing my mother before she died".

"There had been no rational thinking, it happened spontaneously then snowballed out of control," Islaub said.

"I'm not trying to dignify what was done. I was in the back seat and involved."

Islaub told Mr Holles and Judge Colefax if someone had done the same to his sister, mother or grandmother "I'd kill the bastards".