A search is underway after a 30-year-old inmate escaped from Willow Cree Healing Lodge on Saturday evening.
According to Correctional Service Canada (CSC), at around 9:45 p.m., staff members at the minimum-security federal institution discovered that Albert McKay was not accounted for.
The CSC then contacted the Rosthern detachment of the RCMP.
McKay is described as being six feet tall, weighing 244 pounds, with a medium complexion, brown eyes, and brown hair.
He is currently serving a sentence of three years, two months, and 20 days for break and enter and assault.
The CSC says it’s investigating the circumstances surrounding the escape and is working with the police to locate McKay.
Anyone with information on McKay’s whereabouts is asked to contact police immediately.
This search comes less than a week after another inmate, Leroy Desmond Daniels, failed to return to the facility after an escorted temporary absence in Saskatoon.
In a news release on Sunday night, the federal correctional service said Daniels was apprehended by Saskatoon police earlier that day.
He had been at large since Feb. 25.
Willow Cree Healing Lodge is located around 90 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
