A New Hampshire inmate is on the run after he escaped from a transitional housing unit in Manchester.

Officials said 60-year-old Richard Keefe Barnes signed out of the minimum security facility to go to work, but never came back.

Barnes could face up to seven more years in prison for escaping.

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