Police continue to look for a man who escaped from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert Monday night.

Staff discovered Hector Thomas Bird was missing during a head count in the prison’s minimum security unit.

Bird is 23 years old and serving a three-year sentence for sexual assault, sexual interference and failing to comply with a probation order.

He is described as five-foot-seven and 117 pounds, with a medium complexion, brown eyes and black hair.