Inmate captured after walking away from Fort Supply prison

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FORT SUPPLY — An inmate was captured Thursday evening about two hours after being reported missing from a minimum-security prison in Fort Supply, prison spokeswoman Linda Eike said.

A Harper County sheriff’s deputy captured Austin Burks, 20, about 6:45 p.m., Eike said. Burks walked away from the William S. Key Correctional Facility, which does not have a fence, sometime before 4:45 p.m., she said.

Someone called the prison shortly before Burks was discovered missing and told officials there was a man on his property wearing inmate clothing about seven miles northeast of the prison, Eike said. By the time authorities arrived, the prisoner was gone and a head count at the prison revealed Burks was missing.

Burks is serving an eight-year sentence for burglary, larceny, drug possession and concealing stolen property convictions out of Pottawatomie County in 2008, prison records show.