SIOUX FALLS - Authorities are searching for an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security unit at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

Corrections officials say 30-year-old Travis Thorngren had been serving a 5-year sentence on a grand theft conviction in Lincoln County. He went missing on Monday night.

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