The search is on for an inmate who is missing from the Saskatchewan penitentiary in Prince Albert.

28-year-old Carey Henry was declared missing Wednesday after staff members could not account for him following an evening-count in the minimum-security unit according to the Correctional Services of Canada.

Henry, who was in the midst of serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for a variety of crimes, is described as 6 foot 3, and weighing 230 pounds. He has a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair.